Clean Energy Spending Tracking Toward Record $180 Billion in 2026
Donald Trump is accidentally overseeing a massive buildout of the country’s renewable energy capacity and infrastructure. Not only are investments in renewable technologies soaring to new highs, the national energy grid is rapidly transforming to accommodate an increasingly solar- and wind-powered energy mix.
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- Fact 1: Clean energy capital expenditures already reached $74 billion in the first half of 2026, and they’re on track to reach a record $180 billion by the end of the year, according to fintech firm Crux’s State of Clean Energy Finance: 2026 Mid-Year Market Intelligence Report.
- Fact 2: As a result, we are currently “living in what arguably is one of the best periods to invest in renewables in the US over the last 20 years” according to Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, chief executive officer of Portuguese electric utilities company EDP.
- Fact 3: Accordingly, EDP is directing approximately USD $5.3 billion – more than half of its capital expenditures – toward United States renewables projects over the next three years.
- Fact 4: Over the past three years, utility-scale battery storage capacity increased at a blistering rate of 70 percent per year on average to reach 52 gigawatts (GW) today.
Donald Trump is accidentally overseeing a massive buildout of the country’s renewable energy capacity and infrastructure. Not only are investments in renewable technologies soaring to new highs, the national energy grid is rapidly transforming to accommodate an increasingly solar- and wind-powered energy mix.
Despite massive rollbacks of Biden- and Obama-era clean energy incentives and financial supports, investment in clean energy tech keeps soaring to new heights, buoyed by market forces far outside of the federal government’s control. Clean energy capital expenditures already reached $74 billion in the first half of 2026, and they’re on track to reach a record $180 billion by the end of the year, according to fintech firm Crux’s State of Clean Energy Finance: 2026 Mid-Year Market Intelligence Report. “The market is proving resilient,” Crux CEO and co-founder Alfred Johnson was recently quoted by Politico’s E&E News.
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Original source: OilPrice.com
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