\n<\/aside>\nA year ago, President Joe Biden launched a new era of US industrial policy, signing into law the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips and Science Act. Passed within days of each other last August, the two laws offered more than $400 billion in tax credits, loans, and subsidies, all designed to spark development of a domestic cleantech and semiconductor supply chain.<\/p>\n
Over the past year, the Financial Times has identified more than 110 large-scale manufacturing announcements\u2014including in semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, and solar and wind parts\u2014spurred by the landmark legislation. We have examined them and spoken to experts, and here is what we have learned.<\/p>\n
$224 billion worth of projects and 100,000 jobs<\/h2>\n At least $224 billion in cleantech and semiconductor manufacturing projects have been announced in the US since the passage of the IRA and the Chips Act. In total, they promise to create 100,000 jobs. The FT tallied company announcements of at least $100 million from August 2022 to this week.<\/p>\n
While the pace of announcements has slowed, each month since the acts passed has brought new projects. This month, Singapore-based Maxeon Solar Technologies announced a $1 billion solar panel facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and US manufacturer First Solar picked Louisiana for its fifth factory, worth $1.1 billion\u2014the largest capital investment in the region\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe [IRA] is working to accelerate the nation\u2019s energy transition, spur economic growth, and launch a renaissance in American manufacturing. I don\u2019t think in my career I\u2019ve ever seen a law have a greater impact on economic development in this country,\u201d said Gregory Wetstone, chief executive officer of the American Council on Renewable Energy, a clean energy lobbying group, at a panel on Monday.<\/p>\n\n Advertisement <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\nThe largest commitments have come from semiconductor groups: Intel will expand a campus in Arizona and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will build a second fabrication plant in the same state; IBM will invest in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley region and Micron will build the US\u2019s largest semiconductor plant in Clay, New York.<\/p>\n
Planned project sites pepper the country, but certain states and regions are streaking ahead, and new manufacturing hubs are appearing. Georgia and South Carolina have secured the most projects, with 14 and 11, respectively. Michigan and Ohio are next, and Arizona follows.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just gives you chill bumps to think about in the next 10 to 20 years\u2014what is the Midlands region gonna look like?\u201d said Ashely Teasdel, South Carolina\u2019s deputy secretary of commerce, of Volkswagen\u2019s $2 billion plan to build an electric vehicle plant in the state\u2019s central region. South Carolina awarded Volkswagen a $1.3 billion incentive package to secure the project.<\/p>\n
Republican districts have secured the dollars<\/h2>\n The FT found that more than 80 percent of cleantech and semiconductor investments announced in the past year are heading to Republican districts, despite there having been no votes from congressional Republicans for the IRA and only lukewarm support for the Chips Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have incredible support from both Democrats and Republicans in Georgia,\u201d said Marta Stoepker, spokesperson for Qcells, a South Korean solar manufacturer that this year made a $2.5 billion investment in two Republican districts in Georgia, including one represented by GOP firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n
But a Republican-led committee in the House of Representatives recently approved a bill that would weaken the IRA, while the rightwing Heritage Foundation think-tank\u2019s Project 2025 has already created a lengthy manual calling on a potential future Republican administration to roll back the legislation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the biggest differences in policy between a Republican candidate and a Democratic candidate is going to be what is going to happen with energy,\u201d said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former Trump administration official now at Heritage. \u201cProject 2025 is to make sure the economy grows fast, and it\u2019ll grow faster with lower spending, especially public spending.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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