Progressive Dialogue II:
Demand Drivers
for Sustainable
Energy Solutions—Users

March 2008

Meeting Materials

Dialogue II Participants (PDF)
Dialogue II Proceedings: Discover. Demand Drivers for Sustainable Energy Solutions, Council on Competitiveness, 2008

Dialogue Presentations

Sustainable Energy: Forecast for End-User Technologies (PDF)
James Edmonds, Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Role of Transmission in Achieving Energy Efficiency (PDF)
Joseph Welch, President and Chief Executive Officer, ITC Holdings Corporation

Selected Dialogue Reference Materials

The Council provided participants with the following reference materials to stimulate thinking on what drives the private sector to adopt sustainable energy solutions.

Provoke. Discussion Draft: The Energy–Competitiveness Relationship
Council on Competitiveness (September 2007)

Define. The Energy–Competitiveness Relationship
Proceedings from Dialogue I
Council on Competitiveness (2008)

The Case for Investing in Energy Productivity (PDF)
McKinsey Global Institute (February 2008)

“End-Use Energy Technologies,” from Global Energy Technology Strategy: Addressing Climate Change (PDF)
James A. Edmonds et. al., Battelle Memorial Institute (May 2007)

Additional Progressive Dialogues

Dialogue I: Define the Energy–Competitiveness Relationship (September 2007)
Dialogue III: Deploy Sustainable Energy Solutions—Suppliers (June 2008)