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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Is a Win for Clean Energy—and for America

Jason Few

July 3, 2025

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The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) is more than a legislative milestone—it’s a turning point for American energy leadership. While some headlines have claimed that clean energy was left behind, the truth is that this bill directly supports the fuel cell industry and gives the United States a competitive edge in data center infrastructure, grid resilience, and clean manufacturing.

The bill also reinstates the Investment Tax Credit (ITC), a critical tool for accelerating the deployment of U.S.-built fuel cell platforms. The ITC’s flexibility—especially its transferability and long-term visibility—gives developers and investors the confidence to scale.

During a recent Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Commerce Committee hearing, a panel of experts, including companies that are building some of the largest data centers in the U.S., emphasized that data center development requires very significant, up-front, capital investments. Using basic math, this means that a 100MW power solution for a data center project that would cost approximately $500 million, could cost closer to $350 million, provided of course the taxpayers meet all the regulatory requirements. If we want to accelerate these investments to protect the grid and the people who rely on it, this is exactly the type of policy that Congress should be advancing. 

Congress also made the right call to preserve the transferability of key tax credits. For small- and mid-sized companies, this is a lifeline. It allows them to monetize credits and secure the financing needed to grow—adding shifts, hiring workers, and delivering power solutions faster.

We also support Congress’ decision to modify hydrogen provisions in the bill. Companies that have made significant investments in hydrogen deserve policy stability, and Congress delivered.

The OBBBA doesn’t pick winners and losers—it recognizes the unique strengths of each clean energy technology. Fuel cells are dispatchable, scalable, and built for the demands of a digital, electrified future. This bill gives us the tools to lead.

Jason Few

Jason Few is President and CEO of FuelCell Energy, Inc, a global leader in fuel cell technology focused on distributed power, hydrogen, energy storage, and carbon capture. FuelCell Energy’s purpose is to enable a world empowered by clean energy. For more than 30 years, he has been a business leader, entrepreneur, and technology leader across various industries, often all at once. Jason has worked at the intersection of transformation across technology and energy for Global Fortune 500, small/mid-cap, and privately held energy, technology, and telecommunications firms including NRG/Reliant, Continuum Energy, Motorola, and Sustayn Analytics L.L.C., a hardware and cloud-based data analytics recycling software as a service company. Jason is renowned for his decisive stance on high-stakes projects, including Reliant Energy, where he engineered a billion-dollar turnaround, transforming it into a multi-brand, multi-product consumer services company, much like the transformation he is also engineering at FuelCell Energy. Jason is a member of The Business Council, serves on the Boards of FuelCell Energy, Inc., Enbridge Inc., and formally served on the Boards of Marathon Oil Corporation and Syniverse Technologies. He is also a member of the Hydrogen Council. Jason has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Systems in Business from Ohio University and a Master’s in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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