Traveling to the Silver State last week, I saw the country’s future coming to life. Nevada’s new clean energy package, Senate Bill 448, marks important steps to seize the potential in clean energy, creating well-paying new jobs, lowering energy bills, raising health outcomes and helping stave off the worst effects of climate change.

With President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan, all of America will follow suit.

Speaking directly with Nevadans leading the state toward this clean energy future, the promise ahead becomes clear.

Across the state, over 41,000 Nevadans already work in clean energy and grid jobs — and more than 4 in 10 of them are people of color. This workforce has enabled the state to produce the second-most geothermal energy in the nation, and the fourth-most utility scale solar. I saw their efforts up close on a tour of the Townsite Solar plant outside of Boulder City with Raquel, a foreman at the plant and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). Thanks to Raquel and her colleagues, along with the state’s aggressive use of net metering, Nevadans have enough solar capacity to power over half of the state’s homes. And in Northern Nevada, Tesla’s Gigafactory has the state playing a lead role in manufacturing the batteries that are so critical to the clean energy future — showcasing the long-term benefits of public-private partnerships, as Tesla has flourished since receiving a $465 million Department of Energy loan in 2010.