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Jesse Jenkins
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Jesse is a leading energy and climate policy analyst and advocate and manages the Breakthrough Institute's Energy and Climate Program. He is the lead author or co-author of numerous reports and analysis including "Climate Pragmatism," "Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena," "Where Good Technologies Come From," "Post-Partisan Power," "Strengthening Clean Energy Competitiveness," "Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant," "Jump-starting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy," and widely cited analysis of Congressional energy and climate change legislation. Jesse's work and analysis has been featured in Time, Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other major media outlets. He has appeared on National Public Radio, MSNBC, and in the pages of Forbes, Atlantic Monthly, San Francisco Chronicle, Yale Environment 360 and other publications. He is founder and chief editor of WattHead - Energy News and Commentary and is a featured writer at theEnergyCollective.com. Follow Jesse on Twitter: @JesseJenkins.
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August 17, 2011 03:55 PM
Surviving the Coming Clean Tech Crash
(These comments were co-authored by Jesse Jenkins and Alex Trembath, a new Policy Associate at the Breakthrough Institute’s Energy and Climate Program).
Before discussing the best way to green the economy, it’s important to note that the U.S. economy has been greening steadily over the past three years. Buoyed by the policies established and extended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest federal investment in clean tech in American history, the clean energy industry has experienced precipitous growth, as documented by Mark Muro and colleagues at the Brookings Metro program in their recent "Sizing the Clean Economy" report.
Unfortunately, the path of progress may be coming to an end. Our research shows that over 70% of the federal policies and funding support for clean energy that has catalyzed the recent growth of the industry is expected to lapse in the next three years, or has already expired. And make no mistake—clean energy is an industry dependent on government subsidy: tax credits, depreciation
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