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.

The Council Recommends that:

• Congress establish a national, low-carbon energy standard for electric utilities that encompass a minimum of 25 percent renewables by 2025. 

• Congress establish a price floor for gasoline that is sufficient to accelerate demand for fuel-efficient vehicles. 

• Congress enact legislation that will result in the establishment of a consistent, predictable and transparent price on carbon emissions.