heard about it. that s interesting. it moved a little bit. let me just say, you say it is transformative. it is a blockbuster. as you have noted it is the biggest investment in climate in the history of the united states, perhaps in the history of the world. it is doing so much across this country. every day there is a new announcement about a factory or a company that decides to build a factory. since the inflation reduction act and the bipartisan infrastructure law were past there have been 600 factories that have said they were coming to america to build or regrowing in america to build the clean energy products of the future. 600 factories. they are not all built yet. they are in communities all across the country, every pocket of the country. they may have had groundbreaking s but they haven t had ribbon cuttings. people haven t been hired. all these seeds are planted. the shoots are starting to come up but the forest is coming,
folks. that is an important point to stay on for a second. there is a lot of investment happening in all of these different areas of the carbon free future economy. yeah. these are very capital intensive. some is on the research side. some is commercialization. some will build factories to make stuff. batteries, for instance. but it takes a while so there is a little bit of a lag between the lightning and the thunder here, in terms of when people hear it. that is true. you talk to folks in the building trades. they are just seeing blockbuster gains in employment. i was just in washington state. a little rural area, a city called moses lake. they were agricultural before. they have four battery factories coming, and believe me, that community knows what is going on. that is just like all over. all over the country. these factories are coming up.
they want the status quo. however, 60% of the investments are going to red states. these battery companies, et cetera. solar factories. it would be political suicide for a politician to decide to vote against what is happening in that state. georgia is a great example. i mean, they have a huge new battery belt happening there. they are the main strap of the battery belt. and vying against a state like michigan, the buckle of the battery belt. but the governor, republican. he is saying, we watched this industry here, and he should. all right. secretary jennifer granholm of the united states government. thank you so much. thanks. that is it on this thursday night. alex wagner starts now. such an important conversation. senator or cabinet member.
the industrial midwest, for decades he stood by and watched all these factories go away, go offshore. he said, we are not going to do that anymore. we will create a strategy. the united states is going to lead. i go to these international conferences. they are so envious of what we have done in the united states because it means that we are growing a full on industry here. we are stamping it, made in america. and we are using it. i am telling you, this is a whole game changer. so i saw this, this caught my eye. ahead of the clean energy jobs, the nonprofit, talking about the california grid. the battery storage discharge. batteries are the largest source of supply, and it shoots up around 7:00 a.m. and stays above the other sources. we are seeing places where texas, and to their great credit, they have had state- based policies with a good
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