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  • Handout 6 Mobilizing

    “Mobilizing a World-Class Energy Workforce.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Bridge the Skills Gap and Build Talent in the United States

    The Council Recommends that:

    • The U.S. Government offer full scholarships to U.S.
    graduates who commit to a minimum period of service in an energy-related career in the governmental, academic or non-profit sectors.

    • Congress establish a CompetePass program that will allow eligible participants to redeem the passes at U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) one-stop training centers.

    • The U.S. Government grant green cards to foreign students receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in scientificand engineering disciplines from U.S. institutions. 

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  • Handout 5 Spawning

    “Spawning Technological Breakthroughs and Entrepreneurship.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Discover the Future and Break Energy Technology Barriers

    The Council Recommends that:

    • Congress support ten commercial-scale carbon capture
    demonstrations to be completed by 2020 and three to
    five at-scale demonstrations of energy storage technologies.

    • Congress support three to five demonstrations of new
    nuclear reactors by 2018.

    • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) create the 21st
    “Century Clean Energy Leadership Initiative” funded at
    $250 million to create regionally-based R&D test-beds and large-scale commercial pilots.

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  • Pillar 4 Clearing Obstacles

    “Clearing Obstacles to a National Transmission Superhighway and Smart Grid.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Build a National Transmission Superhighway

    The Council Recommends that:

    • Congress set national criteria for transmission siting by creating independent regional planning authorities overseen by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

    • FERC require regional planning authorities to allocate costs to construct and upgrade transmission regionally, spreading costs across all jurisdictions served by the new lines.

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