By Jake Edie

This article was originally published in Renewable Energy World.

The outlook for the U.S. solar and energy storage market in the coming year remains uncertain. We don’t know exactly what the Trump Administration will try to accomplish, how important energy policy will be relative to other policy goals, or how Congress, the courts, and administrative rulemaking processes may slow down, change, or add to those policy goals.  

These questions are vitally important. The clean energy industry is now sufficiently large that it has stakeholders across the political spectrum who value the jobs and economic development that it delivers. Successful clean energy projects require alignment of policy, economics, and technology. If any one of those elements doesn’t work, projects face great risks…

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Jake Edie is Vice President, Marketing at Clean Energy Associates, and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.