Houser: Only $4.6B of $80B in emerging climate tech announcements has materialized
Trevor Houser · How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment? · Oct 12, 2023 · at 37:21
Trevor Houser and Shayle Kann discuss the realization rate of announced clean hydrogen, carbon management, and SAF projects following the passage of the IRA.
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“So of that eighty billion in announcements, only four billion of that, 4.6 billion, has actually turned into steel on the ground so far over the past two years, right? So it's a big, that's the place where the gap between announcement, as you say, announced Investment, and actual investment is the largest.”
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