Percent
100%
Solar capacity added (2024)
Record year for new U.S. solar capacity.
Current status
≈36 GW (record)
Clean Energy
The grid is getting cleaner in real life: record solar in 2024 and another big build in 2025, plus climate-service jobs on the ground.
Every heat dome is followed by another lawsuit, another banned phrase, another attack on the workers building the clean grid. The opposition’s whole strategy is to stall until the planet taps out.
Fossil mega-donors
Oil and gas PACs pour cash into blocking solar tax credits and suing to keep methane loopholes so they can squeeze a few more quarters out of driftwood refineries.
Source ↓Grid obstructionists
Republican attorneys general keep suing DOE to stop new transmission corridors, then pretend interconnection delays are a mystery of nature.
Source ↓Climate book banners
State legislatures captive to the denial caucus literally ban agencies from using the words ‘climate change’ in resilience plans, guaranteeing communities stay unprepared.
Source ↓Daddy's Plan
While the federal government rolls back climate policy, California keeps charging forward. Gavin has spent years living in the disaster zone: breathing the wildfire haze, evacuating communities, and rebuilding the same towns the fossil era keeps burning down.
The result? A resilient future where solar + storage keep the lights on, and young workers move into high-skill, union-track STEM roles that build the next generation of American infrastructure.
Solution
Accelerate utility-scale solar + storage and keep interconnections moving.
Source ↓Solution
National service programs placed people in on-the-ground climate work.
Source ↓Solution
Heat, fire, and flood mitigation where people actually live and commute.
Source ↓Power metrics
Progress you can measure right now.
Percent
100%
Record year for new U.S. solar capacity.
Current status
≈36 GW (record)
Percent
100%
EIA developer plans point to another huge build year.
Current status
≈33 GW
Percent
75%
Reported positions filled in the first cohort (toward a 20k goal).
Current status
15,000+ roles
Source Library
Charts, federal fact sheets, and EIA outlooks backing every claim about solar buildout and resilience.