While the Inflation Reduction Act calls for a huge injection in clean energy spending, the industry still faces supply snarls, trade tensions and delays in connecting to power grids.
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Caton Fenz already thought that 2022 was going to be a good year. The CEO of Houston-based ConnectGen, which builds wind and solar power plants that sell electricity to utilities, had planned to hire about five or six new workers.
Then Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act last month, and Fenz’s four-year-old company is now looking for a dozen employees.