The Navigating Uncertainty: Clean Energy Investment Trends (2026-2029) report shows that clean energy investors and developers largely plan to increase their investments in 2026 but cite policy, regulatory, and interconnection uncertainty as the biggest risks to their investment strategy after this year.
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New Report Highlights Clean Energy Investment Trends Amid Policy Uncertainty
ACORE released a new report on the clean energy investment landscape showing that the clean energy market surged at the end of 2025, and investment in clean energy projects is likely to reach a record high in 2026.
Clean Energy Investment Trends: S&P Global Energy Report Produced for ACORE
ACORE released a new report produced by S&P Global Energy that highlights clean energy investment trends amid policy uncertainty.
ACORE Protest of PJM’s Proposed Expedited Interconnection Track
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
ACORE urges the Commission to reject PJM’s most recent queue prioritization filing, which will not be sufficient to meet the reliability challenges facing PJM. Instead, more fundamental reforms are needed to improve the speed and efficiency of its interconnection queue process.
Grid Modernization Can’t Wait: Lessons from the ACORE Policy Forum
At the ACORE Policy Forum, leaders from across the energy sector spoke about expanding transmission lines and deploying advanced transmission technologies to maximize our current infrastructure and move quickly to meet the surge in electricity demand.
Day 1 at the ACORE Policy Forum
Policy Forum attendees heard from voices across the energy sector on the first day of one of ACORE’s signature events.
Scaling Energy Infrastructure: Permitting Reform for Speed and Affordability
This issue brief provides an overview of how permitting reform offers a substantial opportunity to reboot the laws, policies, and approaches needed to provide the electricity and transmission infrastructure required to reduce high costs for consumers, power businesses and homes, and strengthen international competitiveness.
Interconnection Queue Rationing Reforms
This report reviews current proposals and offers recommendations for beneficial interconnection reform going forward.
ACORE Comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on the Interconnection of Large Loads
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
ACORE filed comments supporting the establishment of rules on the interconnection of large loads while also urging the Commission to take steps to expand and modernize the transmission system to meet the load growth challenge.
2025 ACORE Permitting Principles and Policy Recommendations Summary
- Grid Infrastructure
- Policy
- Siting & Permitting Reform
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
This resource outlines ACORE’s policy principles for permitting reform, key recommendations to improve the permitting process, and additional policies to expand and modernize the grid.
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