More than 8,000 people attended the recent Cleanpower 2025 Clean Energy event at the American Clean Power Association (ACP) in Phoenix, Arizona.
The American Clean Power Association (ACP) held its annual CleanPower event in Phoenix, Arizona from 19 to 22 May 2025, with more than 8,000 members of the industry and 500 exhibitors in the Nutschal Clean Power Industry.
Experts in solar, wind and energy storage met to close deals, share product updates and get the newest scoop about legal changes. PV Magazine USA The event attended and gained insight into the challenges and solutions for the power in the field of usable utility scale.
In a show in a show panel, ACP Market Intelligence Senior director Kelsey Hallahan shared new data for Q1 2025 Buildout, and noted that the industry continues to dominate the capacity of new electricity generation added to the grid.
ACP followed 4.5 GW new solar scale on the utility scale, 1.6 GW New storage on the schedule and 1.3 GW of land-based wind additives alone in Q1 2025. This brings the combined capacity of those technologies up to 320 GW, or about 80 million American houses with power.
The US has now installed 30.7 GW in storage with grid, with a growth of 65% on an annual basis, according to ACP.
“Q1 was really good,” said Rob Keizer, head of asset management, Orsted. ‘Many of us have experienced it [Production Tax Credit] Cliffs in the past where you get this large run -up in Q4, and then Q1 leads to a lot of disappointment when it comes to megawatts in the ground. If you see more and more megawatts in Q1, this means that the policy works. There as a certainty about making investment decisions. “
Despite this growth and a strong regulatory environment, things will change quickly. The elephant in the Chamber during the event is the ongoing budget coordination process and the continuous uncertainty with regard to the availability of tax credit for solar, wind and energy storage.
On Thursday, the last day of the event, news came up that the House barely The “big, beautiful bill.” The revised bill got worse than expected for the clean energy industry, which means that the investment tax credit and the production tax credit for all projects that were not employed at the end of 2028 are employed, instead of a slower phasing out until 2031.
The news left a horrifying feeling on the show floor while the industry was struggling with the reality of a potential sudden conclusion to support the regulations. The bill then goes to the Senate, where it can be revised to be more useful for the Schone Power Buildout, but as it is, the bill was called “unworkable legislation” by Abigail Ross Hopper, President and Chief Executive Officer, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
Despite the unrest in the regulations, there was also optimism on the show floor. Various discussions revolved around the expected increased electricity demand in the United States under the leadership of the AI and data center tree, as well as the electrification of transport and buildings. After decades of relatively flat demand, it is expected that the growth of the electricity tax will take off, so that a major role for clean current will be pronounced.
Another light for the event is the tree in the production of American clean energy. ACP has issued a report in addition to the event Following the progress in the direction of Teshoring production.
ACP said that the production of clean energy is now good for $ 18 billion at GDP, up to $ 86 billion in 2030. The industry of cleaning production supports more than 122,000 jobs and is growing up to no less than 575,000 jobs, it said.
“Stricting commitment to clean energy is the creation of new production facilities throughout the country. This success will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and revitalize American communities if policy leaders will produce economic progress compared to the partnery division,” said Jason Grumet, CEO of ACP.
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to work with us and reuse part of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
Popular content
