In late 2025, the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Institute released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking ambitious economic policymaking strategies that advance affordable and abundant decarbonization and infrastructure resilience. CPE submitted its response in December 2025. We believe this submission adequately summarizes much of the public-facing work the CPE Energy Team has done over the past three years.

Our submission targets RFI categories 5, 6, 7, and 8, particularly the sub-questions concerning the deployment pathways of various energy technologies and the state of the energy project finance landscape in light of uncertain federal policy. We focus on how public enterprise-style approaches, led chiefly by states interested in speeding along clean energy technology deployment, can continue to stabilize electricity markets and technology investment pathways in the absence of federal support.

CPE is the only nonprofit think tank focused solely on the role public finance and public enterprise can play in addressing critical infrastructure investment gaps in this county. We focus on housing, energy, and transportation. This submission focuses chiefly on upgrading the U.S. energy system, but we apply very similar strategies to our consulting and research work in the other two verticals.

Had we submitted this today, we would have also integrated analysis from our recent “Energy finance trends in 2026” research note.