In the wake of the House of Representatives passing a massive tax package that would roll back energy tax credits, Washington Post reporters Evan Halper and Maxine Joselow examined the difficult choices facing Senators as the bill progresses through their chamber. Their May 23, 2025 article—”Clean energy money is gushing to red states. Now GOP senators are in a bind.“—includes commentary from CEBN member Kay Aikin, CEO of Dynamic Grid.
The full article is available to Washington Post subscribers; below is the excerpt featuring Kay:
“One of our major investors is seeing this bill as creating too much risk to invest right now,” said Kay Aikin, founder of Dynamic Grid, a Maine company that supplies commercial customers with energy storage systems. “That could effectively put us out of business.”
Her company is in the process of building a $6 million factory that would ultimately employ 70 people in Lewiston. Only two months ago, the company had secured $3.2 million in Small Business Administration financing for the project.
