
The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies makes the case that America's advantages-world-class universities and national laboratories, a vibrant private sector, and innovative states, cities, and regions that are free to experiment with a variety of public policy approaches-position the United States to create and lead a new clean energy revolution. According to this report, there is an opportunity for the United States to continue to lead in the pursuit of increasingly clean, more efficient electricity through innovation in advanced technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies considers how to speed up innovations that would dramatically improve the performance and lower the cost of currently available technologies while also developing new advanced cleaner energy technologies. Rather than trade affordability and reliability for low emissions, is there a way to balance all three?


Large-scale installation of cleaner power generation has been generally hampered because greener technologies are more expensive than the technologies that currently produce most of our power. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generation create environmental risks that could have significant negative economic, security, and human health consequences. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society.

Division on Engineering and Physical SciencesĮlectricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S.Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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