Beyond the Big Beautiful Bill: Building and financing clean energy after a critical tax credit deadline

How a PVAMU research team is tackling a big challenge in clean energy

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 16, 2026) – Prairie View A&M University’s Dr. Yunxiang Gao has received nearly $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to support research that could advance future clean energy technologies. Yunxiang Gao, Ph.D. An associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, Gao is leading research focused on carbon nanobuds—tiny materials made from carbon that could support the development of cleaner, more efficient energy …

Beyond the Big Beautiful Bill: Building and financing clean energy after a critical tax credit deadline

On this episode of the Factor This Policycast, Walter McLeod and Bryan Didier of Monarch Private Capital share how clean energy projects are being financed for construction in the second half of 2026 and beyond.