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Houser: $39B is the floor for clean tech manufacturing investment over next 12 months
“Thirty-nine billion dollars last year is definitely the floor on what we're gonna see over the next 12 months.”
Trevor Houser Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 21:43 How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment?
Assertion Supported
Houser: Only $4.6B of $80B in emerging climate tech announcements has materialized
“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 In…”
Trevor Houser Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 37:21 How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment?
Assertion Supported
Houser: US clean energy investment hit $213B in first year post-IRA
“So the past year We saw two hundred and thirteen billion in investment in clean energy, broadly defined. So that means, but the manufacturer of clean energy technology and the deployment of that technology, both in wholesale energy production or industrial pro…”
Trevor Houser Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 9:42 How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment?
Assertion Supported
Houser: Clean energy rose to 4.1% of total US investment
“So if you measure it in that way, clean energy investment was 4.1% of total investment in the US economy last year, up from 1.7%. Of total investment in the U S economy five years ago.”
Trevor Houser Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 10:27 How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment?
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