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Clean Investment Monitor: US Q2 2026 Update
In the second quarter of 2026, clean energy and transportation investment in the United States totaled $75 billion, a 22% increase from Q1 2026 and a 4% jump from Q2 2025.
Charlotte McClintock
Associate Director
Charlotte is an Associate Director with Rhodium's Energy & Climate practice and builds energy and climate data products.
Energy & ClimateCharlotte builds energy & climate data products for Rhodium Group. She is currently building out the Transition Acceleration Framework, a suite of analytics to inform strategic climate investment in private markets. Previously, Charlotte built ClimateDeck, Rhodium’s public energy & climate data platform, and led the Clean Investment Monitor team, publishing open data on manufacturing and deployment of clean technologies.
Before joining Rhodium, Charlotte led a climate data team at the Department of State where she developed data products and quick-turn analysis to support US climate diplomacy. Charlotte holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Virginia where she focused on using quantitative social science methods to study human behavior in systems and guide policy. She is based in Seattle, Washington.
Research by Charlotte McClintock
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Assessing Data Center Power Options with the Transition Acceleration Framework
We assess which options for powering data centers genuinely accelerate the energy transition, which undermine progress, and which merely participate in trends that are taking place anyway, using the new Transition Acceleration Framework.
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Clean Investment Monitor: US Q1 2026 Update
In the first quarter of 2026, clean energy and transportation investment in the United States totaled $61 billion, a 3% decline from Q4 2025 and a 9% decline from Q1 2025.
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Seeking Alternatives: How Fast Can Sustainable Aviation Fuel Scale?
The war in the Middle East has disrupted jet fuel, which has seen prices more than double since January. The crisis has intensified calls to build long-term resilience for jet fuel supplies by accelerating SAF.