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ACEEE Webinar: Contracts for Difference: Driving Clean Industrial Investment

Bolstering U.S. industrial competitiveness requires a high degree of capital investment and technological innovation. In some cases, firms and investors need policy interventions to ensure they can make innovative technologies competitive in the market. Contracts for differences (CfDs) are increasingly being investigated as a possible solution to this challenge. CfDs originated in the 1970s in financial derivatives markets and have been applied successfully as policy tools to support renewable electricity in the U.K., and heavy industry in the Netherlands and Germany. A CfD guarantees a price to the producer, making up the difference between the market price and production costs. CfDs offer promise for encouraging manufacturing of clean goods and investments in low-carbon production processes and are being applied precisely in this way in Germany. Join us for a webinar exploring the value and challenges of CfDs, along with actionable recommendations for implementing this policy tool in the United States. Attendees will hear from experts in the United States and Germany, as well as staff from the U.S. Congress, as they discuss how CfDs could be part of the future of clean industrial policy.