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Renewable Energy: Technology, Trends, and Economics

Renewable Energy: Technology, Trends, and Economics



公開日: 2013/02/06
Learn more and download handouts at http://www.eesi.org/020513_renewables

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) organized a briefing about the important and growing role that renewable energy plays in the American energy mix.

• Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (U.S. Navy, Ret.), President, ACORE - http://youtu.be/mxc-uKqRiGs?t=3m59s
• Steve Chalk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy - http://youtu.be/mxc-uKqRiGs?t=11m29s
• Shirley Neff, Senior Advisor, Energy Information Administration - http://youtu.be/mxc-uKqRiGs?t=33m19s
• Mark Fulton, Former Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Asset Management - http://youtu.be/mxc-uKqRiGs?t=43m45s
• Dr. Robert Ichord, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Dept. of State - http://youtu.be/mxc-uKqRiGs?t=57m35s
• Carol Werner, Executive Director, Environmental and Energy Study Institute (Moderator)

Renewable energy resources -- including water, wind, biomass, geothermal, and solar -- are abundant and geographically diverse across the United States, and are used to generate electricity, provide thermal energy, fuel industrial processes, and produce transportation fuels. The deployment of renewable energy technologies has grown rapidly in recent years as their costs have decreased substantially and as the nation looks to meet growing demand, diversify its energy supply, promote energy security, and reduce carbon emissions.

Renewable electricity generation has grown 62 percent since 2001, and in 2011 represented 12.7 percent of total U.S. electricity generation. Furthermore, 12,956 megawatts of renewable energy capacity was installed in 2012, accounting for 49.1 percent of all new electrical generating capacity in the United States. The briefing provided an overview of renewable energy technologies, domestic and international deployment trends, and exciting market and economic conditions.



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Clean Energy Financing: What Works?



公開日: 2012/10/31
Find all relevant materials at http://www.eesi.org/102512_cleanfinan...
Table of contents: http://youtu.be/5zUdoFfdtSU?t=15s

Thursday, October 25, 2012——The Embassy of Germany and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing hosted in coordination with the Congressional Study Group of Germany that examined how we can fully unleash the clean energy sector to reap powerful economic growth and job creation benefits. The speakers will compare investment policies in the United States and Germany, to see what is working and what isn't. What type of regulatory framework is necessary to give clean energy companies a stable investment climate? What works best, loan guarantees, tax credits, feed-in tariffs, quotas?