Tell Congress to Support Clean Energy Tax Incentives

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

For the first time ever, the United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable energy than from coal.¹

This is a critical moment for renewable energy. Clean energy sources like wind and solar have risen at incredible rates over the past several years, thanks in large part to programs that have incentivized clean energy over dirty, dangerous fossil fuels.

But many of these incentive programs need to be updated and expanded — and to solve our largest environmental problems, we must do much more, much faster.

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=38892 to tell Congress: Support vital clean energy tax incentives to embrace a sustainable, renewable energy future.

Tax incentives speed the growth of renewable energy by making it easier for people and businesses to adopt and invest in clean alternatives to the fossil fuels that have polluted our air, dirtied our water, and threatened our special places.

Renewable energy is already sweeping across the country, and clean energy incentives have been a key part of that process. Over the past decade, solar energy capacity in the U.S. has expanded 40-fold and wind energy has tripled.²

But even with this growth, we still only get 10 percent of our electricity from renewables, and many of these incentives need to be updated or expanded.³

Join me in asking Congress to support clean energy incentives.

We know that energy incentives work. Since the Investment Tax Credit was implemented in 2006, allowing solar customers to recoup some of the cost of their solar installation through tax returns, the U.S. solar industry has grown by more than 10,000 percent.⁴ Incentives have also helped grow wind energy, electric vehicles and energy storage across the nation.

If we’re going to clean up our air and water, protect our precious wild places, and stop the worst impacts of climate change, we need programs like these, and we need to do even more.

Tell Congress to go big on clean energy by supporting incentives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage and electric cars.

1. Brad Plumer, “In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.,” The New York Times, May 13, 2020.
2. “Renewables on the Rise,” PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, 2020.
3. “Renewables on the Rise,” PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, 2020.
4. “Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC),” Solar Energy Industries Association, 2020.