When America Leads: Competing for the Future of Clean Energy

Three new laws signed by President Biden position America to lead a global clean energy industrial era. Third Way invites you to an in-person event on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 10:00 AM ET featuring Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on the significant and lasting economic benefits from clean energy innovation driven by American researchers and scientists, manufactured by American businesses and workers, and deployed at home and around the globe.

The investments in the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act will cultivate domestic industries and help America compete within booming global markets for clean technologies. Sec. Granholm will be joined by leaders from the private sector and policy experts to discuss groundbreaking new research by Boston Consulting Group, commissioned by Third Way and Breakthrough Energy, that shows that the industries supporting six clean energy technologies alone will have a market of $2 trillion a year, equal to roughly 10% of current US GDP.

Agenda:

Opening Remarks

Josh Freed, Senior Vice President of Third Way’s Climate and Energy Program and Co-Founder of Carbon-Free Europe

Keynote Address

Sec. Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Department of Energy

Fireside Chat

Seifi Ghasemi, CEO of Air Products

Eric Dresselhuys, CEO of ESS Inc.

Roxanne Brown, International Vice President at Large, United Steelworkers

Moderated by Sec. Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Department of Energy

Panel Discussion

Tina Zuzek-Arden, Boston Consulting Group

Varun Sivaram, U.S. State Department

Dr. Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Third Way

Mike Boots, Breakthrough Energy

Moderated by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic