1. Provide direct federal funding for clean energy manufacturers to retool their facilities and retrain their workers to develop, produce, and commercialize clean energy technologies.
2. Attach standards to funding: condition federal support to manufacturers on their ability to meet labor and domestic content standards.
3. Increase funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, both to expand its role in strengthening the clean energy supply chain and to establish partnerships with regional/local development and manufacturing support organizations.
4. Increase funding for the Green Jobs Act and direct funds administered under the Act toward workforce and skill standards development for the clean energy manufacturing industries.
5. Create a “Presidential Task Force on Clean Energy Manufacturing” to bring together a range of federal agencies to make the manufacturing of clean energy systems and components a national priority.

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