Announcing the 2025 Grantees from the Energy System Interactions RFP
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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Project Title
Made in America? Unpacking the Drivers and Impacts of Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing
Total Funding
$750,000
Project Period
12/2025–11/2028
Project Goal
Our goal is to examine the policy, market, and institutional conditions that influence where domestic clean energy manufacturing emerges, which stakeholders might benefit, and how these relationships reshape the interactions between energy system decarbonization, supply chain resilience, and achieving climate goals.
Objectives
The two main research questions that this project will address are:
What factors drive states’ clean energy domestic manufacturing capacity?
How does this domestic capacity affect states’ abilities to balance emissions, employment, and supply chain resilience?
To answer these questions, we develop a comprehensive analytical framework combining econometric, political economy, and integrated assessment modeling to investigate clean energy manufacturing dynamics, and we will conduct two case studies examining regional solar and battery manufacturing clusters in the United States.
Proposed Activities
The project will use mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative and qualitative research to analyze the development of domestic clean energy supply chains, with a focus on regional solar and battery manufacturing clusters. We will conduct in-depth case studies of these clusters, organize a stakeholder workshop hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to validate findings and gather additional insights. We will link trade models with the integrated assessment model, GCAM, to explore impacts to renewable deployment and emissions under well-grounded forward-looking industrial and trade policy scenarios.
Expected Outcomes
The project will generate new knowledge on the policies and conditions that enable robust domestic clean energy supply chains. It will contribute to more effective policymaking on incentives for domestic manufacturing, enhance understanding of the links between industrial policy and climate goals, and improve public awareness of how clean energy manufacturing shapes economic development, employment, and decarbonization.
Acknowledgments
We are deeply grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its generous support, and we thank the Sloan staff, reviewers, and advisors for their thoughtful guidance and suggestions. We also appreciate the leadership and staff of CIDR, Marxe, SPAR, Baruch College, RFCUNY, and our collaborating institutions for their support.
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