Our outdated systems hold back smart, competitive energy innovations. The Clean Economy Project exists to fix the systems so America can build, innovate, and invest at speed and scale.
Clean Economy Project
Unleashing clean energy to drive economic growth and shared prosperity.
About
Clean Economy Project (CleanEcon) is a policy and advocacy platform that unleashes smart energy solutions to drive a new era of economic growth, industrial strength, and shared prosperity. By fixing systems and removing policy barriers, we make clean energy the most affordable, reliable, and fastest way to power a growing economy.
Our Work
From policy blueprints to real-time data platforms, CleanEcon builds the tools that policymakers, investors, and industry leaders need to make faster, smarter decisions.
Policy Design
The Blueprint Series
Implementable policy designs to modernize America’s federal energy innovation system — written by the people who spent years inside the system and know exactly where it breaks.
Explore Blueprints
Data Platform
Energy Momentum
A data platform tracking clean energy investment across the United States — where it’s going, where it’s stalling, and what it means for America’s electricity future.
Explore the DataPartnership with Heatmap & MIT
Electricity Price Hub
A public data platform tracking monthly residential electricity rates and bills at the utility level across all 50 states — so you can see not just that prices are rising, but why.
Explore the HubNews & Updates
America’s power shortage is a market failure
Early U.S. rail development was fragmented, with local projects often failing to connect regions. In Utility Dive, CleanEcon’s Director of Strategy Maria Martinez explains what today’s grid developers should pay attention to.
Leadership Spotlight: Farah Benahmed, Director of Innovation Initiative
Meet Farah, Director of the Innovation Initiative at CleanEcon. In this spotlight, Farah shares her point of view on what is holding clean energy tech back and how leaders can think more holistically about impact.
Leadership Spotlight: Adria Wilson, Director of Innovation Initiative
In this Leadership Spotlight, director of the Innovation Initiative Adria Wilson shares why innovation is a process rather than a moment, where policy and technology fall out of sync, and what success could look like for the U.S. clean energy innovation ecosystem a decade from now.