C2 · Pillar C · Growth Acceleration
Clean power and grid modernization
Sustained investment in transmission (the binding constraint on clean-energy deployment), storage, grid modernization, and accelerated permitting, including FERC process reform for interregional transmission planning.
- 10-year fiscal
- +$450B costInvestment
- Implementation
- Years 1–10
- Middle class
- Positive
- Planetary
- Strongly positive
$300B–$600B · Medium confidence
Lower long-run electricity costs and direct employment in installation and manufacturing.
The principal supply-side complement to the carbon fee.
Global precedent
Denmark’s wind transition, backed by transmission and policy stability, exceeded 50 percent renewable electricity. Germany’s Energiewende is the cautionary case: generation without adequate grid investment raised costs.
Lead mechanism
Department of Energy; FERC; Department of the Interior.
Bipartisan framing
Conservative case
Energy independence, manufacturing competitiveness, and grid resilience.
Progressive case
Climate-policy infrastructure.
Figures in this framework are illustrative directional estimates derived from publicly available data and conventional Congressional Budget Office budget-window logic. They are not official CBO scores. Any provision adopted from this framework would require formal CBO scoring before legislative consideration. This document is a policy white paper, not an introduced bill.