Incentives and Implementation: How Policy Informs the Clean Energy Transition

Three major areas are key to meeting our country’s clean energy goals: technology, finance, and policy. The three are interdependent and inform one another, but the linchpin for all of them is policy. Strong, consistent clean energy policy creates the supportive environment that is necessary to spur technology and finance innovation. While the pace of clean energy deployment is accelerating, it has been hampered by inconsistent policies and the lack of policy certainty. But new developments, including incentives for microgrids, could change the course of clean energy policy in the U.S.