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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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  • Pillar 3 Jumpstarting

    “Jumpstarting Energy Infrastructure and Manufacturing Investments.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Capitalize Growth and Increase Domestic Clean Energy Manfacturing

    The Council Recommends that:

    • Congress establish and capitalize a $200 billion National Clean Energy Bank, modeled on the U.S. Export-Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation, to provide long-term financing for clean energy.

    • Congress establish fifteen federally-sponsored, regional clean energy manufacturing centers.

    • The U.S. Government provide federal financial investment to facilitate construction of the first two to three manufacturing plants for any new or significantly improved sustainable energy technology.
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  • Setting the Global Bar for Energy Efficiency

    “Setting the Global Bar for Energy Efficiency.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Reward Efficiency

    The Council Recommends that:

    • Congress set the 2030 CAFE standard to 100 mpg and provide more federal transportation funding to states that are the most effective in reducing vehicle miles traveled per person.

    • All states decouple utility rates from gross energy sales and focus on providing utilities with a reasonable rate of return on all their investments.
     
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  • Midwest Energy Summit

    “Midwest Energy Summit : Investing in a Midwest Renaissance.”

    The Future of Energy Security and Sustainability

      
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  • Western Energy Summit

    “Western Energy Summit: Accelerating Energy Innovation.”

    Spurring the Development and Commercialization of New Energy Technologies

       
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  • Eastern Energy Summit

    “Eastern Energy Summit: Energy Efficiency and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.”

       
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  • Southern Energy Summit

    “Southern Energy Summit: The Path to Energy Diversification.”

    Addressing Public Policy, Business and Technological Challenges to Sustainable Energy Supplies

       
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  • Deploy

    “Deploy.”

    Progressive Dialogue III: Demand Drivers for Sustainable Energy Solutions

    While energy suppliers are beginning to make the new investments and implement new approaches to producing and delivering energy, they require a level playing field on subsidies and transparent energy prices, along with well-designed regulations, informed consumers, innovative workforce development partnerships and confidence that responsibility for arresting global climate change will be shared among developed and developing nations alike.
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  • Prioritize

    “Prioritize.”

    A 100-Day Energy Action Plan for the 44th President of the United States

    The Council on Competitiveness has called on the next president of the United States to put the full weight of his office behind the Council’s 100-Day Energy Action Plan, released in September.

    The Council’s roadmap for a sustainable energy future represents more than a year of collaboration by more than 200 private sector leaders, including CEOs, university presidents, organized labor leaders, national laboratory directors and energy experts.

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