Pathways to Keep Financing Flowing into Clean Electricity Sectors
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2025-12-19
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In fall 2025, ACORE, Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, the EFI Foundation, and the World Resources Institute convened technology developers, finance providers, large-load customers, and legal and policy experts to explore how to keep finance flowing toward clean electricity sectors.
Participants defined three central challenges to keeping capital flowing into these projects:
inflationary pressure and the rapid increase in electricity demand;
regulatory and policy uncertainty around tax credits and permitting;
and financing barriers for first-of-a-kind clean firm power projects such as geothermal, nuclear, carbon capture and sequestration, and long-duration storage.
Participants discussed a set of market-based solutions and the benefits of policy certainty to support the near-term scaling of existing energy resources, alongside investments in the commercialization of clean firm technologies.
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Ewing, John, Lesley Hunter, April Salas, Karl Hausker, Ian Hitchcock, Michael Downey, Sonia Griffen, Gabby Hyman, et al. (2025). Pathways to Keep Financing Flowing into Clean Electricity Sectors. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33878.
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John Jackson Ewing
Jackson Ewing is director of energy and climate policy at the Nicholas Institute of Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and a faculty affiliate with the Duke Center for International Development at the Sanford School of Public Policy. He works closely with the Duke Kunshan University Environmental Research Center and International Masters of Environmental Policy programs to build policy research collaboration across Duke platforms in the United States and China.
Prior to joining Duke, Ewing was director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, where he led projects on Asian carbon market cooperation and sustainable resource development in the ASEAN Economic Community. He previously served as a MacArthur Fellow and head of the Environment, Climate Change and Food Security Program at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and has worked throughout Asia with actors in government, the private sector, civil society, and international organizations.
Ewing publishes widely through a range of mediums and is a regular contributor to radio, television and print media. He holds a doctorate in environmental security and master's degree in international relations from Australia’s Bond University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the College of Charleston.Material is made available in this collection at the direction of authors according to their understanding of their rights in that material. You may download and use these materials in any manner not prohibited by copyright or other applicable law.