May 21-23, 2024 - Cleveland, OH
Like past business revolutions, the clean economy revolution is creating a new generation of business winners and losers, billionaires, and bankruptcies. Businesspeople who understand what’s happening will reap the benefits. Those who don’t face failure.
How a trifecta of public policies that almost didn’t happen is now driving the biggest investment into clean energy, climate solutions, and technology in history, reshaping our economy, our country and our future.
The surge in electric-powered cars, buildings and goods is also spurring unprecedented demand for clean, renewable energy. By some predictions, electricity usage in America is expected to triple by 2050. Every automaker is now shifting to electric vehicles. Building owners and homeowners are increasingly shifting away from gas heating and appliances to safer and more efficient heat pumps and electric goods. The number of electronic gadgets we depend on continues to rise. Question is: Can American produce enough clean energy to power the new economy?
In the future, we’ll make our energy just like the sun and bottle it up in virtual power plants. We’ll use it in sexy heat pumps and stoves named Charlie. Past economic transitions in transportation, computing and constrution, unleashed world-changing innovations and opportunities. The clean economy transition is now doing the same.
The clean economy promises to bring with it poeple of color, women and parts of the country left behind by previous economic transitions. And with jobs, investments and opportunities now pouring into states across the country – regardless of politics or geography – it just might help finally bridge the bitter national divide over climate action.
From rural Mississippi to suburban Maine, from Washington state to southernmost California, the clean economy is remaking parts of America in ways that until recently would have been inconceivable. It’s also finally getting America in the game in the $23 trillion global clean energy market - as long as we don’t let short-sighted politicians take us backward again.
