The Clean Energy Innovation Funding Freeze

The Live Funding Freeze Ticker—developed by Greenline Insights in partnership with C2ES—illustrates the real-time economic costs of freezing federal programs.

What's at Stake?

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The Real Cost of Delay

The freezing of federal funds is creating significant economic damage to America’s energy future and manufacturing competitiveness. As these critical investments remain frozen, the United States is missing opportunities to advance domestic manufacturing, create jobs, and develop the clean energy technologies needed to maintain global leadership.

The current federal funding freeze is creating widespread uncertainty and driving disinvestment from promising American energy projects. These federal incentives have already catalyzed massive announced investments nationwide, demonstrating their potential to stimulate private sector investment, create high-quality jobs, and revitalize legacy manufacturing communities.

The cost of delay is substantial and increasing by the second.

C2ES partnered with research firm, Greenline Insights to quantify the cumulative and accelerating impact of federal clean energy and manufacturing funding freezes.

EXPLORE THE DATA

  • What the Ticker Measures

    The ticker displays cumulative, irreversible economic losses resulting from the freeze of IRA programs. These figures represent the decrease in expected economic benefits relative to a counterfactual scenario where these programs were all implemented on time and as intended.

    • Cost to the U.S. economy: The loss in total dollar value of all economic activity that would have been generated had IRA funding been deployed as intended.
    • Lost work days: A measure of total labor effort, calculated as one job sustained for one day. For example, a construction project employing 100 full-time workers for 100 days would generate 10,000 job-days. This metric allows for the aggregation of short-term and part-time employment impacts into a single, time-weighted measure.
    • Lost worker income: The aggregate compensation to workers—including wages, salaries, benefits, and proprietor income—that will no longer occur.

    These values are expressed in real time and represent non-recoverable losses stemming from diminished purchasing power as time passes without program implementation. Finally, the “At Risk” metrics show the total funding, economic cost, lost workdays, and lost worker income if the currently frozen IRA programs are never implemented.

    Use the dropdown menu to explore data for specific agencies.

  • Detailed Methodology

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