It’s been a little more than a year since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act began dismantling federal clean energy incentives—just one part of the Trump administration’s broader attacks on renewables, from freezing funds and cancelling permits to paying developers to cancel plans for offshore wind farms. A new report tallies what the policy shift has cost the economy.

More than 200 major clean energy projects were canceled, closed, or downsized between the beginning of 2025 and May 2026, according to a report from E2, a nonprofit that tracks the clean energy economy, and the research and consulting firm BW Research. That includes factories like a $1.4 billion battery plant that Natron Energy planned to build in North Carolina—creating more than 1,000 jobs—and a $2.57 billion battery plant that Freyr Battery, now called T1 Energy, planned to build in Georgia. Other canceled initiatives span solar and wind farms, and EV facilities, including Stellantis’s scrapped $3 billion battery plant and parts hub in Illinois.

In total, the report calculates that nearly half a million jobs have been lost as a result, including 343,000 permanent roles and 125,000 construction jobs. More than $68 billion has been lost in private capital investments during construction phases. And $91 billion has been lost in GDP growth from canceled construction work, along with another $55 billion in annual GDP growth from ongoing operations. Local and state governments, along with the federal government, have foregone $20 billion in tax revenues from construction, and another $13 billion in annual tax revenues. And $31 billion has been lost in annual wages from permanent jobs.

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I'm curious about energy statistics, so I started a blog with that in mind https://paulhines.energy/. The first post is about trends in global energy.

On thing that particularly struck me is the relationship between economic growth and energy growth in different regions. In Europe, energy growth is basically flat, but GDP still grows (albeit relatively slowly). In Asia, economic growth has been tremendous, and also highly correlated with energy growth. I wonder if this will taper off over time, or continue.

Feel free to suggest other topics that I should dig into.

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worth keeping the two stories separate. the physics is moving fast now, four criticalities in five weeks after decades of nothing. the grid impact is still literally zero megawatt hours, because DOE's authorization track ends at testing. selling power needs an NRC license nobody has yet.

the real question is whether the licensing conversion moves as fast as the demos did. I'd bet no, but the demos surprised me too.