Mike
Carr
Mike has worked for 30 years designing policies and building consensus to advance clean energy technologies — specializing in finding innovative approaches to solving the unique problems of emerging, disruptive technologies.
Background
Working with U.S. industry leaders over the last 5 years, Mike launched and serves as Executive Director of the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America Coalition (SEMA). SEMA achieved an early policy win by developing, with allied interests in Congress, the 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit and the Domestic Content Bonus Incentive enacted into law in 2022. SEMA then continued to work to improve implementation guidance and successfully defended the credit in the most recent tax bill passed in July of 2025. Under Mike's leadership SEMA has built strong, bipartisan ties in Congress as well as the Administration, becoming a leading voice in continuing manufacturing reshoring efforts.
His federal government experience — spanning the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Senate Energy Committee, and the U.S. Department of Energy — has been focused on creating policy incentives and frameworks to enable the U.S. clean energy industry to flourish.
His most recent federal service was as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Senior Advisor to the Director of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at DOE from 2012 to 2015.
Prior to DOE, Mike served as Senior Counsel to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 2004 to 2012, where he conceived of, drafted, and guided through Congress a number of incentive programs including the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program and the L-Prize.
