President and Chief Executive Officer of Veolia’s Sustainable Industries and Buildings, at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a municipal solar farm in Rhode Island.
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The current administration seems determined to kill solar and wind power, but renewable energy refuses to die for one very good reason: it makes good economic sense.
One area in which renewables bring indisputable economic value to the U.S. is employment. According to a September 2025 report, nearly 3.6 million Americans work in clean energy businesses, with over 500,000 jobs added over the last five years. In 2024, seven percent of new U.S. jobs and 82% of new energy sector jobs were in clean energy.
Trump’s characterizations of solar and wind as unreliable and expensive haven’t held up to scrutiny. A February 2025 analysis by institutional energy data service BloombergNEF of the levelized cost of electricity—the long-term investment required by a power plant to…
