In an effort to combat climate change and to satisfy customer demand, the corporate community is expected to buy 7.2 gigawatts of green energy this year, which surpasses the roughly 5.4 gigawatts it purchased in 2017. The movement is taking place despite the Trump administration’s denial of climate science.
Corporations, generally, view the Trump administration as an aberration — that the globe is trending toward a low-carbon future and that subsequent public policies will reflect that movement. Nevertheless, the president can stall those changes and in fact, he has acted to do so by withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, by trying to kill the Clean Power Plan and by placing tariffs on solar panel imports.