More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday, as President Donald Trump\u2019s pending megabill has raised fears over the future of domestic battery, electric vehicle and solar and wind energy development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many companies are concerned that investments will be in jeopardy amid House Republicans\u2019 passage of a tax bill that would gut<\/a> clean energy credits, nonpartisan group E2 said in its analysis of projects that it and consultancy Atlas Public Policy tracked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The groups estimate the losses since January have also cost 10,000 new clean energy jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tax credits, bolstered in the landmark climate bill passed under former President Joe Biden in 2022, are crucial for boosting renewable technologies key to the clean energy transition<\/a>. E2 estimates that $132 billion in plans have been announced since the so-called Inflation Reduction Act passed, not counting the cancellations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week\u2019s House bill effectively renders moot many of the law\u2019s incentives. Advocacy groups decried the potential impact that could have on the industry after the multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package<\/a> passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe House\u2019s plan coupled with the administration\u2019s focus on stomping out clean energy and returning us to a country powered by coal and gas guzzlers is causing businesses to cancel plans, delay their plans and take their money and jobs to other countries instead,\u201d E2 executive director Bob Keefe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Senate is now reviewing the bill with an informal July 4 deadline to get it to the president\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the most recent cancellations include the Kore Power battery factory in Arizona and BorgWarner\u2019s closure of two EV manufacturing sites in Michigan. Bosch suspended a $200 million investment in a hydrogen fuel cell factory in South Carolina, citing changes within the market over the past year in a statement to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tariffs, inflationary pressures, nascent company struggles and low adoption rates for some technologies may also have been reasons for these companies\u2019 plans changing. For instance, the battery storage and electric vehicle sectors have seen the most impact in 2025, with the latter especially having had had a difficult past few years. Several projects spurred by the IRA were also canceled prior to 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of the projects canceled this year, most \u2014 more than $12 billion worth \u2014 came in Republican-led states and congressional districts, the analysis said. Red districts have benefited more than blue ones from an influx of clean energy development and jobs, experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Georgia and Tennessee are particularly at risk because they are highly invested in EV and battery production, said Marilyn Brown, an energy policy professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf all of a sudden these tax credits are removed, I\u2019m not sure how these ongoing projects are going to continue,\u201d said Fengqi You, an engineering professor at Cornell University who also was not involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A handful of Republican lawmakers have urged the continuation of energy tax credits, with some saying in an April letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. that a repeal could disrupt the American people and weaken the county\u2019s position as a global energy leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration has sought to dismantle much of Biden\u2019s environmental and climate-related policy \u2014 what he calls the Democrats\u2019 \u201cgreen new scam\u201d \u2014 withdrawing again from the Paris climate agreement<\/a>, rolling back countless landmark pollution regulations<\/a> and environmental initiatives<\/a>, reconsidering scientific findings supporting climate action<\/a>, blocking renewable energy sources<\/a> and more in an effort to bolster a fossil fuel-led<\/a> \u201cAmerican energy dominance\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile other countries are proceeding with green investments. The European Parliament is committing to the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a policy meant to prevent \u201ccarbon leakage,\u201d or companies moving production to countries where climate policies are less strict. And the International Maritime Organization is moving toward a global carbon tax on shipping<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a sign that not all hope is lost for the future of renewables in the U.S., April alone saw nearly $500 million in new development, with Japanese manufacturing company Hitachi\u2019s energy arm building out transformer manufacturing in Virginia and materials and technology company Corning investing in solar manufacturing in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, $4.5 billion in development was canceled or delayed last month, according to E2\u2019s tally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What has been canceled<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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