Lenore Palladino is assistant professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst.

September 12, 2023

Analysis

Labor’s Green Capital

Pension funds, asset managers, and solar energy

Global investment in solar energy has skyrocketed in recent decades: from 1 TWh of solar power in 2000 to 1,284 TWh in 2022. The trend is likely to be magnified in the United States by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),…