Read the letter here. 

Washington, D.C. – Today, 116 clean energy executives and leaders representing over 1,300 clean energy companies have signed onto a letter urging President Biden and congressional leaders to take repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act off the table and not allow it to be tied to the potential default on the US debt. 

“We became executives in the growing field of clean energy production by looking forward and planning for the future. Americans overwhelmingly support the clean energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act; the law is creating jobs, lowering costs, encouraging domestic production, and building energy security. Our nation’s clean energy boom is just getting started. H.R. 2811 would set our companies back and do terrible harm to American energy innovation and security,” the clean energy business leaders wrote. 

The CEOs who have signed onto the letter have companies that operate across all 50 states, ensuring that communities nationwide have access to clean energy and good paying, family sustaining jobs. Signers of the letter represent an array of clean energy businesses including solar, wind, battery, electric vehicles, software, grid technology, HVAC, ventilation, construction, and finance/venture capital, to name a few. 

The Inflation Reduction Act has turbocharged our clean energy economy—and given businesses the support and security necessary to create good paying clean energy jobs across the country. Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, over 140,000 clean energy jobs have been advanced, creating good paying jobs across the country, and primarily in red districts and states. 

The full text addressed to President Biden, Speaker McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Schumer, Senate Republican leader McConnell, and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries can be found below. 

Dear President Biden, Speaker McCarthy, House Democratic Leader Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Schumer, and Senate Republican Leader McConnell:

As executives with American clean energy companies, we employ thousands of Americans in a fast-growing industry. The Limit, Save, Grow Act (H.R. 2811) threatens both our individual businesses and larger efforts to onshore our energy supply chain, supercharge innovation, and make our nation more energy independent than it’s ever been. 

Since the Inflation Reduction Act became law, our industry has publicly announced more than 140,000 new clean energy jobs in communities across the country. Thousands more additional jobs will be created as our investments flow throughout the economy, building factories and clean energy infrastructure. 

It makes no sense to us that H.R. 2811 jeopardizes our nation’s economy with a catastrophic default unless these jobs are eliminated. America’s allies and rival nations alike are not threatening to wipe out their industries; instead, they are trying to outcompete us. The truth is that threats to our businesses aid foreign competitors against us in the innovation race to lead the world in the next generation of energy production.

We became executives in the growing field of clean energy production by looking forward and planning for the future. Americans overwhelmingly support the clean energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act; the law is creating jobs, lowering costs, encouraging domestic production, and building energy security. Our nation’s clean energy boom is just getting started. H.R. 2811 would set our companies back and do terrible harm to American energy innovation and security. 

We urge you to reject efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and end the threats to our businesses and hundreds of thousands of American clean energy jobs.

Thank you,

4.0 Analytics, Inc., Mark Scotland, CEO & President

Aclima, Davida Herzl, Co-Founder & CEO

Aegis Creek, Kevin Cammack, CEO

Aestus Inc., Franz Bronnimann, Co-Founder & CEO

ALLY Energy, Katie Mehnert, CEO

Aloft Systems Inc., Miles Keeney-Ritchie, CEO

Alpen High Performance Products, Brad Begin, CEO

American Solar Manufacturing Company, Rick Schwerdtfeger, CEO

Arcadia, Kiran Bhatraju, CEO

ArcVera Renewables, Gregory S. Poulos, CEO

AriSEIA, Autumn Johnson, Executive Director

Arrival, Michael Ableson, CEO

Avantus, Tom Buttgenbach, Ph.D., President & CEO

Bergey Windpower Co. LLC, Michael Bergey, CEO

BlueWave, Trevor Hardy, CEO

BOSS Controls Inc., Greg Puschnigg, CEO

Brummitt Energy Associates Inc., Beth Brummitt, President

BrightAction, Lisa Altieri, Founder, CEO

BQ Energy, Paul Curran, CEO

Budget Solar Electric Installation, Whitney Painter, Owner

Caelux, Scott Graybeal, CEO

Canopy, Michael Mettler, Co-Founder, CEO

CarbonQuest, Shane Johnson, CEO

CleanCapital, Thomas Byrne, CEO

CZAR Power, Tony Frisone, CEO

DARE Strategies LLC, Dave Belote, CEO & Managing Partner

Dimension Energy, Rafael Dobrzynski, CEO

Dimensional Energy, Jason Salfi, CEO

Dvele, Kurt Goodjohn, Co-Founder & CEO

Eden Homes, Ben Phillips, Founder & CEO

eFormative Options, LLC, Heather Rhoads, CEO

Elemental Excelerator, Dawn Lippert, Co-Founder & CEO

Elysian Energy, Jim Conlon, Owner, President

Embue, Robert Cooper, President & CEO

Encore Renewable Energy, Chad Farrell, Founder & Co-CEO

Enervee, Matthias Kurwig, Co-Founder & CEO

Enphase, Jason Simon, Senior Director, Head of Policy

EV Box, Remco Samuels, CEO

EV Life, Peter Glenn, Founder, Co-CEO

EV Realty, Patrick Sullivan, Co-Founder & CEO

First Solar, Mark Widmar, CEO

Flair Systems, Dan Myers, CEO

Flip, Ben Larralde, Founder

Frontline BioEnergy, LLC, Jerod Smeenk, CEO

Fujitsu General America, Matt Peterson, President & COO

Future Energy Enterprises, LLC, Annette Beitel, President

GlycoSurf, Inc., Chett Boxley, CEO

Gradient Comfort, Vince Romanin, CEO

Green Fortress Engineering, Peter Schubert, CEO

Green Homeowners United, Kevin Kane, Chief Economist

GreenWealth Energy, Ariel Fan, CEO & Founder

Greenwork, Sam Steyer, Co-Founder & CEO

Heliene, Martin Pochtaruk, President

Helio Home, Eric Reinhardt, Co-Founder & CEO

Highland Electric Fleets, Duncan McIntyre, Founder & CEO

Hydrokinetic Energy Corp., Walter Schurtenberger, CEO

ICAST, Ravim Malhotra, Founder & President

Ideal Energy, LLC, Troy Van Beek, Founder & CEO

Imperial Ridge, Kevin Morse, Managing Director

Impulse Labs, Sam D’Amico, Founder & CEO

Inspiration Mobility, Josh Green, Founder & CEO

itselectric, Nathan King, Co-Founder, CEO

Kopperfield, Mark Wong, Co-Founder & CEO

Latimer Partners, Tom Soto, Founder & CEO

Leading Edge Equipment Technologies, Rick Schwerdtfeger, CEO

Leap Photovoltaics, David Berney Needleman, CEO

Lightsource BP, Kevin Smith, CEO

Lumen Energy, Peter Light, CEO

Melink Corporation, Steve Melink, Founder & Chairman

Moxion Power, Paul Huelskamp, CEO

National Car Charging, RJ Harrington, Partner

necoTECH, Steve Flaherty, CEO

Nextracker, Dan Shugar, Founder & CEO

NineDot Energy, David Arfin, CEO

Onboard Dynamics LLC, Rita Hansen, CEO

Pine Gate Renewables, Ben Catt, CEO

Power Solutions Inc, Tonya Hicks, President & CEO

Quilt, Paul Lambert, Founder & CEO

QuitCarbon, Cooper Marcus, CEO

RockeTruck, Inc., Paul B. Scott, Sc.D., CTO

Sandbox Solar, Ian Skor, Owner & CEO

Scale Microgrid Solutions, Timothy Hade, Co-Founder

Scout Clean Energy, Micheal Rucker, Founder & CEO

Shifted Energy, Forest Frizzell, Co-Founder & CEO

Silfab Solar, Paolo Maccario, CEO

Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Tim McRae, Senior Vice President, Sustainable Growth 

Small Planet Supply, Albert Rooks, CEO

SmartSolar.org, Joey Cheek, Founder & CEO

Solar Energy Industries Association, Abigail Ross Hopper, President & CEO

Solar Forma Design, Brian Graff, CEO

Solar Integrators, Timothy Dwight, Owner

Solid Carbon Products LLC, Gay Wyn Quance, CEO

Solstice Community Solar, Steph Speirs, Co-Founder & CEO

SolSystems, Andrew Williams, Vice President, Policy & Corporate Affairs

Sol-Up Solar, Frank Rieger, CEO

Sparks Spaces, Tarun Girish, CEO

Strata Clean Energy, Marshall Conrad, CEO

Sundial Energy, Austin Schweer, Co-CEO

Sunfolding, Glen Davis, CEO

SunMoksha International, Ashok Das, CEO

Sunray Scientific, Madhu Stemmermann, CEO

Sunrise Mountain Partners, Nicholas Minekime, Founder & CEO

Swift Solar, Joel Jean, Co-Founder & CEO

TeraWatt Infrastructure, Neha Palmer, CEO

The Stella Group, Ltd, Scott Sklar, President

TotalEnergies Renewables USA, Marc-Antoine Pignon, CEO

Trinity Solar, Ed Merrick, Corporate Vice President

TruSolar, Bryan Schwartz, Director/Co-Founder

United Solar, Anders Alexander, General Manager

UtilityAPI, Devin Hampton, CEO

Veloce Energy, Jeff Wolfe, Co-Founder, CEO

Ven Charging, Daphne De Jong, Co-Founder & CEO

Verde Energy Efficiency Experts, Jamie Johnson, Founder & CEO

Zero Emission Transportation Association, Albert Gore, Executive Director

ZERO Homes, Grant Gunnison, Founder & CEO

Zeven Element Design Institute PLLC, Stephen Hamstra, CEO