A year ago, the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill became law and sent the clean energy industry scrambling. As we discussed at the time, it included revised “foreign entity of concern” provisions, new safe harbor requirements, and much-shortened tax credit horizons.
That said, the OBBB’s passage also ended months of uncertainty for a market that had been caught in limbo since the Trump administration took office in early 2025. Developers could build again — and they did so at record levels. The U.S. deployed more clean energy in 2025 than in any previous year, with more than 90% of all new grid capacity coming from clean sources.
But hurdles remain. A year on, many developers are encountering barriers to getting projects up and running. First, permitting remains a challenge, one that is heightened by Trump administration lawsuits, appeals, and stalled approvals that have left projects stuck mid-pipeline. Second, clean-energy-specific tariffs have made it hard to know what a project will cost — or whether it can get built before higher duties take effect. And finally, FEOC rules are still incomplete. The guidance that landed in February punted on the industry’s biggest question, namely what counts as “foreign influence.”
In this live Latitude Dispatch, Latitude Media senior reporter Maeve Allsup and Power Brief founder and CEO Jason Clark dig into the anxieties still plaguing the industry, with exclusive data and analysis from Power Brief. They’ll map the hurdles — and unpack why, despite the headwinds, the industry is still breaking deployment records.
We’ll discuss:
- Where projects are actually getting stuck: the permitting fights, lawsuits, and appeals working their way through the system.
- The tariffs reshaping costs and timelines, from solar to wind to the broader power sector.
- What still-unfinished FEOC rules and shifting Treasury guidance mean for projects trying to qualify for tax credits.
- Whether the industry is ready for the looming sunset of investments and production tax credits, after the roughly three decades that they’ve been on the books.
- And whether data center load growth is enough to push the market forward, even as federal headwinds pull it back.
Bring your questions or submit them ahead of time to editors@latitudemedia.com.
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Who should attend
- Developers and IPPs
- Clean energy investors and financiers
- Manufacturers and equipment suppliers
- Utilities
- State and federal policymakers
- State and federal regulators
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