Policy Impact
Delivering on energy policy
Energy policy has the potential to spur private investments across the country, drive down costs for innovative technologies and practices, and benefit local, national, and global communities. But policy doesn’t make real impact automatically. It takes federal and state governments, communities, nonprofits, industry, and others to ensure energy policy is implemented in a way that supports economic growth, emissions reductions, and global competitiveness.
Our approach
We work to make energy policy more impactful by:
- Tracking and analyzing the impacts of energy policy on communities across the country
- Communicating the benefits of innovative technologies and practices to increase public awareness and political durability
- Advancing U.S. innovation to improve government operations and support the deployment of technology and practices
- Enabling state and local stakeholders to determine the right energy solutions for their own communities
Tracking clean energy investments
Federal policy has a direct impact on catalyzing private investments in communities across the U.S. CATF tracks private investments in clean energy projects that are eligible for federal incentives (grants, loans, and tax credits) as well as the status of federal policies that support or jeopardize these investments.
Advancing government innovation
The U.S. is a major investor in energy innovation.
The energy policies and investments established in the U.S. have exponential impacts in domestic investment and global technology diffusion. Industry alone cannot address the market and non-market barriers to the commercialization of innovative technologies and practices. The U.S. government must continue its role in the innovation cycle to achieve the full environmental, health, economic, and reliability benefits that innovative energy solutions offer communities across the country. Our work in U.S. innovation includes:
Innovation pathways for technologies and practices
Implementation resources hub
CATF’s implementation resource hub helps industry, state, and community stakeholders understand and take advantage of federal energy incentives by providing technical research, calculators and other tools, and fact sheets and case studies, spanning a variety of technologies.
