Resource Roundup: Clean Energy & IRA Success Stories
Author: KyungSun Lee
October 30, 2025
Welcome to our roundup of clean energy and IRA-related success stories from the Lab community and partners. Here, we celebrate the hard-fought progress our community has made in advancing clean energy. This collection of storybanks showcases how people have been leading projects and programs to deliver tangible benefits—more jobs, lower costs, improved health outcomes, climate resilience, and more—for their communities, through the support of key clean energy investments like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Explore the impact stories in your community, and share yours by reaching out to Senior Program Manager, KyungSun Lee.
Last Updated: October 2025
Center for Rural Opportunity and Power (CROP)
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota
Climate Jobs National Resource Center
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
American Energy Stories
Atlas Public Policy’s storybank highlights entrepreneurs, community leaders, homeowners, and workers leading clean energy projects. Their goal is to show how Americans are shaping the next chapter of energy technology, economic growth, and job creation.
Community Focus: Cities, Companies, Farmers, Landowners, Residents, Schools, Workers
Geography: National
Center for Rural Opportunity and Power (CROP)
An initiative of Action for Climate Emergency’s Clean Economy Accelerator, CROP houses stories from trusted messengers across Rural America, who amplify the job, economic, and community benefits from clean energy development. ACE’s CROP stories are grounded in their theory of change that reaching, persuading and activating audiences beyond the climate movement echo chamber requires trusted messengers who amplify clean energy benefits, delivered through politically innocuous brands.
Community Focus: Landowners, Local Officials, Rural
Geography: AZ, CO, KS, OH, OK, TX, VA, WI
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota’s stories highlight clean energy business, and their innovative ideas, projects, and partnerships with communities.
Community Focus: Cities, Companies, Farmers, Landowners, Native Tribes, Schools, Workers
Geography: MN
Clean Energy for America
Clean Energy for America’s storybank features stories of people and companies who are leading the charge on renewables. You can also check out their storytelling best practices here.
Community Focus: Churches, Companies, Schools, Workers
Geography: National & Navajo Nation
Clean Energy Resource Teams
Clean Energy Resource Teams is telling clean energy stories from community voices across Minnesota.
Community Focus: Counties, Farmers, Nonprofits, Residents, Schools, Trailer Home Park, Workers
Geography: MN
Climate Jobs National Resource Center
CJNRC is advancing a pro-worker, pro-climate agenda by sharing firsthand accounts of union members who are leading the charge on pro-worker climate action in their communities.
Community Focus: Unionized Workers
Geography: National
Climate Power
Climate Power’s storybank highlights the benefits of the clean energy boom in America powered by the Inflation Reduction Act. Their Clean Energy Stories features people about the impact of the clean energy economy on their communities, families, and themselves. Check out their digital storytelling best practices here. Also check out their interactive maps showing the clean energy jobs created by the Clean Energy Plan and their talking points guidance on how the clean energy plan lowers costs, creates new jobs, and cuts pollution here.
Community Focus: Workers
Geography: AZ, MI, NV, PA, WI
Energy for Y’all All Campaign
A collaborative storytelling project of Generation 180, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network, this campaign highlights how federal investments are playing a meaningful role in the Southeast’s transition towards a new clean energy economy. By telling stories, their goal is to encourage all Americans to take advantage of clean energy funds through the Inflation Reduction Act. Also check out their influencer stories here.
Community Focus: Farmers, Churches, Companies, Homeowners, Influencers, Nonprofits, Residents, Workers
Geography: FL, GA, LA, NC, SC, TN, VA
Environment America
Environment America is advancing the shift to clean, renewable energy powered by the Inflation Reduction Act by sharing testimonials from a range of voices who are choosing and advocating for clean energy.
Community Focus: Churches, Legislators, Medical Professionals, Residents, Students, Universities
Geography: National
Generation 180
Generation 180 tells stories of how everyone can enjoy the benefits of clean energy, including gas savings, less pollution, climate resilience and more. They highlight stories from people benefitting from the clean energy transition in schools, school buses, cars, homes and communities. Check out their storytelling best practices in our Storytelling Tip Sheet, or a more descriptive version in our Storytelling Training.
Community Focus: Parents, Residents, Rural, Students, Schools, Suburban
Geography: National
Resource Rural
Resource Rural tells stories of how people in rural communities and Native Nations are leveraging federal programs and investments to contribute back to their towns. Through their stories, their goals are to bring more people into the conversation about the ways federal funding can benefit rural communities and Native Nations, and shift the narrative on the diversity and resilience of rural places.
Community Focus: Farmers, Churches, Residents, Rural, Small Businesses, Native Nations
Geography: National
ReImagine Appalachia
ReImagine Appalachia’s showing how renewable energy projects and clean manufacturing investments are supporting and even reviving culture and legacy in rural Appalachian communities. These stories show how economic growth can go hand-in-hand with environmental protection, high wage and worker safety standards, and the continuation of legacy trades.
Community Focus: Cities, Companies, Farmers, Landowners, Residents, Schools, Workers
Geography: OH, PA, KY, WV
RE-volv
RE-volv helps nonprofits go solar, and their stories aim to educate communities about the importance of clean energy.
Community Focus: Animal Welfare, Community Development, Faith, Food/Agriculture, Youth, Nonprofits, Schools, Veterans
Geography: National
Rewiring America
Rewiring America is sharing stories from Americans on the real-life benefits obtained from the tax credits they used from the Inflation Reduction Act, and how it has helped them electrify their life from buying heat pumps to electric water heaters, and other energy-savings tools.
Community Focus: Farmers, Homeowners, Workers
Geography: National
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy shares six stories of resilience in their “A (Solar) Light in the Dark: Six Uplifting Stories from Hurricane Season” series. Their stories demonstrate how residents sustained their resilience through clean energy projects during the devastation of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Community Focus: Cities, Churches, Companies, Nonprofits, Landowners, Residents, Local Governments, Schools, Workers
Geography: FL, GA, NC, TN
Solar United Neighbors
Solar United Neighbors is dedicated to building an energy system that works by telling stories of how people have been impacted by going solar. You can find stories about how people are benefitting from the Inflated Reduction Act, the Rural Energy for America (REAP) Program, Solar For All, solar accessibility and affordability, energy democracy, and more. Check out their storytelling best practices in our Storytelling Tip Sheet, or a more descriptive version in our Storytelling Training.
Community Focus: Churches, Homeowners, Small Businesses
Geography: National
The Payback Campaign
This digital Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) campaign was developed by New World agency, in partnership with Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and Make the Road Nevada. Their goal was to boost awareness about the IRA’s benefits among audiences who are most likely to support the IRA but didn’t know much about the policy. The team’s approach was to generate excitement about the IRA’s clean energy savings and cash back benefits, with younger (18-40), BIPOC audiences, through culture-forward, “non-wonky”, splashy ads and interventions. Their campaign features testimonials from parents who secured clean, electric school buses, videos from influencers quizzing pedestrians about the IRA, and churches who installed solar power on their roofs. Check out their digital storytelling best practices here.
Community Focus: Churches, Influencers, Parents
Geography: National, AZ, GA, NV
UndauntedK12
A national group united by a desire to activate the potential of America’s K-12 public school sector to respond to the challenge of climate change and are undaunted by the scale of the challenge. They believe the current moment offers an opportunity for bipartisan action to address longstanding inequities, stimulate the economy, enhance critical public infrastructure, and position America to lead the world in the transition to clean energy-driven commerce and community.
Community Focus: Schools, Teacher, Parents
Geography: National