There's something of a solar power boom underway in the United States.

2022 will likely be a record year for new solar projects and tax credits and state renewable

energy requirements have been big reasons for that expansion.

The industry is booming.

Solar jobs increased 167 percent over the last decade and now employees more than a quarter

million American workers.

And what could really unleash the clean energy boom are the subsidies included in the bill

that used to be known as build back better.

Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of private capital are sitting on the sidelines looking

for a return on clean energy investments but for now they need public subsidies to make

the numbers work given that they're taking on a heavily subsidized and entrenched fossil

fuel industry.

Democrats in the Senate have recently begun to express optimism that a new deal might actually

be pretty close.

A few weeks ago we closely analyzed Senator Joe Manchin's comments about a looming energy

bargain at an oil industry conference.

And this week he appeared on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

I want to play his entire answer to a key question here because in between the lines you can

see where this might wind up.

Senator Manchin I'm going to turn to you because you are for obvious reasons absolutely central

to any progress being made on President Biden's domestic agenda.

Senator Manchin do you think any other legislation meaningful legislation will get passed before

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