Thursday, December 11, 2025

TAG’s Smart Communities and Sustainability Society and the Georgia Cleantech Innovation Hub Presents: “3rd Annual Cleantech Outlook”

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Join us during your lunch hour for a virtual event featuring some of the leading experts in Georgia as we host our 3rd annual GA Cleantech Outlook with a focus on the significant trends and opportunities for our state.

Cleantech innovation conversation in 2025 has been defined by surprise, pain and rapid retooling for the future. Political uncertainty remains a factor (especially around tariffs) as it did last year, however, 2025 saw painful and unexpected (in scale) pull back on federal support and incentives for deployment of mature cleantech technologies (wind, solar, EVs) and de-risking less mature ones (through the Loan Program Office). From the uncertainty, two macro trends, which color everything in cleantech, have emerged: rapidly increasing energy demand and reindustrialization. The headwinds coupled with these trends have created an even greater focus on local manufacturing and supply chains and innovating the cost out of cleantech products and services. As we look toward 2026, the innovation mandate elevates the few technologies that align with these objectives.

Thank you to our Smart Communities & Sustainability Annual Society Sponsors

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