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Chinese companies are dominating the production of technologies essential for a clean energy future. The United States should embrace innovation to preserve its future energy security.
Milo McBride
The Carbon to Clean Tracker catalogs where and how fossil fuel power stations are being repurposed into clean alternatives.
A new global trend is emerging across power markets: legacy fossil-fired power plants are being repurposed into clean energy hubs. Some are being replaced with renewables or technologies to balance the grid while others use alternative fuels. These so-called brownfield sites are also being considered for new manufacturing facilities as well as locations to deploy breakthrough clean energy solutions like long-duration batteries, small modular nuclear reactors, and more.
Chinese companies are dominating the production of technologies essential for a clean energy future. The United States should embrace innovation to preserve its future energy security.
Milo McBride
The United States has deployed varying degrees of diplomacy, foreign financing, and trade for new energy technologies—but a pragmatic, holistic strategy is in order.
Milo McBride, Daniel Helmeci
The United States lags far behind China in the race for clean energy technologies and critical minerals. It needs a robust domestic industrial policy and international partnerships to make up ground.
Bentley Allan, Milo McBride, Noah Gordon, …