Matthew Mailloux
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Biography
Matthew Mailloux is a Program Manager of Clean Energy and Permitting at ClearPath leading the organization’s federal permitting and tax portfolios. In this role, Matt works across ClearPath’s suite of technology areas to shape legislative and regulatory efforts, including new policy development, and responding to administrative proposals.
Matt joined ClearPath in 2021 from the Office of New Hampshire Governor Christopher T. Sununu, where he served as State Budget Director and previously as the Governor’s energy advisor. As State Budget Director, Matt led the development of a balanced budget during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that included $1 billion in tax cuts over 10 years, established a new State Department of Energy, and advanced top administration policy priorities in school choice, paid family leave, and investment in mental health.
As the Governor’s energy advisor, Matt led state-level efforts to modernize net metering policy in New Hampshire to expand clean energy technology, including new financial mechanisms to promote municipal investment. While at the state’s energy office, Matt authored economic reports on clean energy, served as the Governor’s designee to legislative study commissions, and handled intergovernmental relations.
Prior to joining the Governor’s office, Matt was a founding team member for the American Conservation Coalition, serving as the organization’s first Director of Strategy.
Matt was elected to the Brookline, New Hampshire Finance Committee, where he served from 2020-2021.
Education
B.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
Areas of Expertise
Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits
National Environmental Policy Act
State, Local, and Federal Budgets
Featured Content from Matthew
Over the course of this year, Congress wrestled with big permitting questions. House Republicans passed H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, earlier this year with bipartisan support and some of the provisions H.R. 1 were included in the debt ceiling deal codified by the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
This year at New York Climate Week, ClearPath partnered with the American Petroleum Institute (API) to host an event showcasing the future of carbon management. The conversations underscored the opportunity for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries to lead the carbon dioxide emissions reductions at scale.
Some estimates say the U.S. will need to double the capacity of our grid by 2050 to meet demand. That means we’ll need to build an incredible amount of new energy projects to meet demand and emissions reduction goals. Some of those projects are ready to go, but currently stuck in permitting purgatory.
Thousands of towns and communities across the country have been providing the power and fuel needed to run America for decades. While many of these “Energy Communities” are still booming, others have experienced plant closures or waning extraction efforts. Congress has passed new financial incentives to encourage investments in these areas, but now we need to fix permitting to allow the developers to build.
November 2022 marks the first anniversary of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA) robust investments in energy demonstration projects. This law, and its forerunner the Energy Act of 2020, both earned broad bipartisan support to invest in American infrastructure innovation and pave the way for America to once again lead the world in breakthrough clean energy technologies.
While energy prices here at home have soared, Europe has seen even more dramatic price spikes given the tenuous energy supply chain. As part of Europe’s drastic rethinking of their energy mix, U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has become a critical lifeline to the European Union as it prepares to wean itself from Russian gas over the next six months.