ICYMI: Over 100 Clean Energy Executives Urge Congress Not to Pass GOP Proposal Which Threatens American Jobs, the Clean Energy Security, Supply Chains and More

Today, 115 clean energy companies — including the CEOs of Ninedot, Terawatt, and First Solar — wrote a letter urging Congress not to pass the GOP Default on America Act, a wish list of extreme policies that will threaten American energy security and manufacturing jobs by repealing parts of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The energy executives noted that: "Since the Inflation Reduction Act became law, our industry has publicly announced more than 140,000 new clean energy jobs in communities across the country. Thousands more additional jobs will be created as our investments flow throughout the economy, building factories and clean energy infrastructure."

As the CEOs laid out, "Americans overwhelmingly support the clean energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act; the law is creating jobs, lowering costs, encouraging domestic production, and building energy security. Our nation's clean energy boom is just getting started. H.R. 2811 would set our companies back and do terrible harm to American energy innovation."

MAGA Republicans in Congress are threatening our nation's economy with a catastrophic default unless we undo this progress — offshoring manufacturing, slashing funding for research and development, and endangering energy projects and thousands of good-paying American jobs.

Read the full letter below:

Dear President Biden, Speaker McCarthy, House Democratic Leader Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Schumer, and Senate Republican Leader McConnell:

As executives with American clean energy companies, we employ thousands of Americans in a fast-growing industry. The Limit, Save, Grow Act (H.R. 2811) threatens both our individual businesses and larger efforts to onshore our energy supply chain, supercharge innovation, and make our nation more energy independent than it's ever been.

Since the Inflation Reduction Act became law, our industry has publicly announced more than 140,000 new clean energy jobs in communities across the country. Thousands more additional jobs will be created as our investments flow throughout the economy, building factories and clean energy infrastructure.

It makes no sense to us that H.R. 2811 jeopardizes our nation's economy with a catastrophic default unless these jobs are eliminated. America's allies and rival nations alike are not threatening to wipe out their industries; instead, they are trying to outcompete us. The truth is that threats to our businesses aid foreign competitors against us in the innovation race to lead the world in the next generation of energy production.

We became executives in the growing field of clean energy production by looking forward and planning for the future. Americans overwhelmingly support the clean energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act; the law is creating jobs, lowering costs, encouraging domestic production, and building energy security. Our nation's clean energy boom is just getting started. H.R. 2811 would set our companies back and do terrible harm to American energy innovation and security.

We urge you to reject efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and end the threats to our businesses and hundreds of thousands of American clean energy jobs.

Thank you,

4.0 Analytics, Inc., Mark Scotland, CEO & President
Aclima, Davida Herzl, Co-Founder & CEO
Aegis Creek, Kevin Cammack, CEO
Aestus Inc., Franz Bronnimann, Co-Founder & CEO
ALLY Energy,Katie Mehnert, CEO
Aloft Systems Inc., Miles Keeney-Ritchie, CEO
Alpen High Performance Products, Brad Begin, CEO
American Solar Manufacturing Company, Rick Schwerdtfeger, CEO
Arcadia, Kiran Bhatraju, CEO
ArcVera Renewables, Gregory S. Poulos, CEO
AriSEIA, Autumn Johnson, Executive Director
Arrival, Michael Ableson, CEO
Avantus, Tom Buttgenbach, Ph.D., President & CEO
Bergey Windpower Co. LLC, Michael Bergey, CEO
BlueWave, Trevor Hardy, CEO
BOSS Controls Inc., Greg Puschnigg, CEO
Brummitt Energy Associates Inc., Beth Brummitt, President
BrightAction, Lisa Altieri, Founder, CEO
BQ Energy, Paul Curran, CEO
Budget Solar Electric Installation, Whitney Painter, Owner
Caelux, Scott Graybeal, CEO
Canopy, Michael Mettler, Co-Founder, CEO
CarbonQuest, Shane Johnson, CEO
CleanCapital, Thomas Byrne, CEO
CZAR Power, Tony Frisone, CEO
DARE Strategies LLC, Dave Belote, CEO & Managing Partner
Dimensional Energy, Jason Salfi, CEO
Dvele, Kurt Goodjohn, Co-Founder & CEO
Eden Homes, Ben Phillips, Founder & CEO
eFormative Options, LLC, Heather Rhoads, CEO
Elemental Excelerator, Dawn Lippert, Co-Founder & CEO
Elysian Energy, Jim Conlon, Owner, President
Embue, Robert Cooper, President & CEO
Encore Renewable Energy, Chad Farrell, Founder & Co-CEO
Enervee, Matthias Kurwig, Co-Founder & CEO
Enphase, Jason Simon, Senior Director, Head of Policy
EV Box, Remco Samuels, CEO
EV Life, Peter Glenn, Founder, Co-CEO
EV Realty, Patrick Sullivan, Co-Founder & CEO
First Solar, Mark Widmar, CEO
Flair Systems, Dan Myers, CEO
Flip, Ben Larralde, Founder
Frontline BioEnergy, LLC, Jerod Smeenk, CEO
Fujitsu General America, Matt Peterson, President & COO
Future Energy Enterprises, LLC, Annette Beitel, President
GlycoSurf, Inc., Chett Boxley, CEO
Gradient Comfort, Vince Romanin, CEO
Green Fortress Engineering, Peter Schubert, CEO
Green Homeowners United, Kevin Kane, Chief Economist
GreenWealth Energy, Ariel Fan, CEO & Founder
Greenwork, Sam Steyer, Co-Founder & CEO
Heliene, Martin Pochtaruk, President
Helio Home, Eric Reinhardt, Co-Founder & CEO
Highland Electric Fleets, Duncan McIntyre, Founder & CEO
Hydrokinetic Energy Corp., Walter Schurtenberger, CEO
ICAST, Ravim Malhotra, Founder & President
Ideal Energy, LLC, Troy Van Beek, Founder & CEO
Imperial Ridge, Kevin Morse, Managing Director
Impulse Labs, Sam D'Amico, Founder & CEO
Inspiration Mobility, Josh Green, Founder & CEO
itselectric, Nathan King, Co-Founder, CEO
Kopperfield, Mark Wong, Co-Founder & CEO
Latimer Partners, Tom Soto, Founder & CEO
Leading Edge Equipment Technologies, Rick Schwerdtfeger, CEO
Leap Photovoltaics, David Berney Needleman, CEO
Lightsource BP, Kevin Smith, CEO
Lumen Energy, Peter Light, CEO
Melink Corporation, Steve Melink, Founder & Chairman
Moxion Power, Paul Huelskamp, CEO
National Car Charging, RJ Harrington, Partner
necoTECH, Steve Flaherty, CEO
Nextracker, Dan Shugar, Founder & CEO
NineDot Energy, David Arfin, CEO
Onboard Dynamics LLC, Rita Hansen, CEO
Pine Gate Renewables, Ben Catt, CEO
Power Solutions Inc, Tonya Hicks, President & CEO
Quilt, Paul Lambert, Founder & CEO
QuitCarbon, Cooper Marcus, CEO
RockeTruck, Inc., Paul B. Scott, Sc.D., CTO
Sandbox Solar, Ian Skor, Owner & CEO
Scale Microgrid Solutions, Timothy Hade, Co-Founder
Scout Clean Energy, Micheal Rucker, Founder & CEO
Shifted Energy, Forest Frizzell, Co-Founder & CEO
Silfab Solar, Paolo Maccario, CEO
Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Tim McRae, Senior Vice President, Sustainable Growth
Small Planet Supply, Albert Rooks, CEO
SmartSolar.org, Joey Cheek, Founder & CEO
Solar Energy Industries Association, Abigail Ross Hopper, President & CEO
Solar Forma Design, Brian Graff, CEO
Solar Integrators, Timothy Dwight, Owner
Solid Carbon Products LLC, Gay Wyn Quance, CEO
Solstice Community Solar, Steph Speirs, Co-Founder & CEO
SolSystems, Andrew Williams, Vice President, Policy & Corporate Affairs
Sol-Up Solar, Frank Rieger, CEO
Sparks Spaces, Tarun Girish, CEO
Strata Clean Energy, Marshall Conrad, CEO
Sundial Energy, Austin Schweer, Co-CEO
Sunfolding, Glen Davis, CEO
SunMoksha International, Ashok Das, CEO
Sunray Scientific, Madhu Stemmermann, CEO
Sunrise Mountain Partners, Nicholas Minekime, Founder & CEO
Swift Solar, Joel Jean, Co-Founder & CEO
TeraWatt Infrastructure, Neha Palmer, CEO
The Stella Group, Ltd, Scott Sklar, President
TotalEnergies Renewables USA, Marc-Antoine Pignon, CEO
Trinity Solar, Ed Merrick, Corporate Vice President
TruSolar, Bryan Schwartz, Director/Co-Founder
United Solar, Anders Alexander, General Manager
UtilityAPI, Devin Hampton, CEO
Veloce Energy, Jeff Wolfe, Co-Founder, CEO
Ven Charging, Daphne De Jong, Co-Founder & CEO
Verde Energy Efficiency Experts, Jamie Johnson, Founder & CEO
Zero Emission Transportation Association, Albert Gore, Executive Director
ZERO Homes, Grant Gunnison, Founder & CEO
Zeven Element Design Institute PLLC, Stephen Hamstra, CEO