The Council recommends that:
- The U.S. Department of Energy 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.
- 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.
