1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I urge you to champion legislation that reinstates and expands clean energy incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act, funds battery innovation, streamlines grid connections, and modernizes our power infrastructure. This is the path to economic growth, affordable electricity, and American competitiveness. The economics have fundamentally shifted. Solar and wind power are now cost-competitive with fossil fuels and clearly cheaper than coal. Battery technology advances have addressed intermittency concerns, creating a viable path to an electrotech economy where renewable electricity powers our homes, vehicles, and industries. Countries that fail to adopt this technology will fall behind in global competition, while those that embrace it will become richer and more economically resilient. The current administration has imposed a blockade against wind and solar projects, delaying or revoking permits despite favorable economics. This backward approach comes at precisely the moment when accelerating the energy transition would increase economic growth. Meanwhile, coal-burning power plants caused hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the United States between 1999 and 2020, even before considering climate impacts. Congress has the authority to set America's energy agenda. I specifically ask you to reinstate solar and wind incentives, include provisions for balcony solar to democratize energy production, fund innovative battery research to maintain technological leadership, streamline new grid connections to remove bureaucratic barriers, and invest in power line improvements and upgrades to support expanded capacity. This approach will boost the economy through job creation in growing industries, keep electricity prices affordable for constituents by leveraging cheaper renewable sources, and position America as a global leader rather than allowing us to become backward and irrelevant. Electricity-hungry industries like technology and manufacturing need affordable, reliable power. Clean energy delivers both while protecting public health and creating domestic jobs that cannot be outsourced.