ByElla Nilsen, CNN

Published 8:01 AM EDT, Fri July 14, 2023

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/politics/biden-clean-electricity-goal-report-card-climate/index.html

President Joe Biden points to a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting at the White House in June 2022.Drew Angerer/Getty Images/FILECNN—

Tucked into President Joe Biden’s ambitious,sweeping climate commitmentsis a crucially important goal that dates back to his campaign: Transforming the US electric grid to runentirely on clean energyby 2035.

The goal could make or break Biden’s pledge to slash the country’s planet-warming emissions in half by 2030. And if successful, 100% clean electricity could energize vast sectors of the US economy:electric vehicles, home and officeheating and cooling, and appliances. It could even power heavy industry and manufacturing, which is currently reliant on fossil fuels.

“When you have a fully clean grid, versus a grid that either is a quarter or a half clean, that makes…