HOW CONGRESS CAN ENSURE PLUMMETING SOLAR, WIND, AND BATTERY COSTS ACCELERATE OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE

This policy brief outlines a pathway for the United States to achieve 90 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035, leveraging falling technology costs to drive economic recovery and emissions reductions without increasing consumer electricity bills.

• The U.S. can achieve 90 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 without increasing customer electricity bills. This transition would require no new fossil fuel power plants, the retirement of all existing coal plants by 2035, and could prevent up to 85,000 premature deaths from fossil fuel emissions by 2050.
• A transition to 90 percent zero carbon electricity over 15 years could enable $1.7 trillion in investment, create a net increase of 530,000 energy sector jobs annually, and lower economy-wide emissions by 27 percent.
• Without policy interventions, zero carbon electricity sources are projected to reach only 53 percent of the national electricity mix by 2035.
• To reach the 90 percent goal, the authors recommend that Congress adopt a Clean Energy Standard with targets of 55 percent by 2025, 75 percent by 2030, 90 percent by 2035, and 100 percent by 2045.
• The brief proposes several legislative and regulatory actions, including extending tax credits for zero-carbon sources and storage, reinstating manufacturing tax credits, increasing DOE's capital provision for wind, solar, and storage, and establishing a national Just Transition Office to support coal communities.

APA

AGGARWAL, S., & O’BOYLE, M. (2020). HOW CONGRESS CAN ENSURE PLUMMETING SOLAR, WIND, AND BATTERY COSTS ACCELERATE OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE. Energy Innovation. https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/90-Clean-By-2035-Policy-For-Congress_June-2020.pdf

Chicago

AGGARWAL, SONIA, and MIKE O’BOYLE. HOW CONGRESS CAN ENSURE PLUMMETING SOLAR, WIND, AND BATTERY COSTS ACCELERATE OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE. Energy Innovation, 2020. https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/90-Clean-By-2035-Policy-For-Congress_June-2020.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{aggarwal2020how, author = {AGGARWAL, SONIA and O’BOYLE, MIKE}, title = {{HOW CONGRESS CAN ENSURE PLUMMETING SOLAR, WIND, AND BATTERY COSTS ACCELERATE OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE}}, institution = {Energy Innovation}, year = {2020}, month = jun, url = {https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/90-Clean-By-2035-Policy-For-Congress_June-2020.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }