Letter to the president from John Podesta, T. Boone Pickens, and Majority Leader Harry Reid on the need to rebuild our economy on the foundation of clean, domestic, renewable, and efficient energy by rewiring the national transmission grid.

Read the Center for American Progress report: “Wired for Progress 2.0: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid.”

By Bracken Hendricks of the Center for American Progress
Read the full report (pdf)
Additional Information Including Maps, Infographic, and a background basic of Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid.

A truly national clean-energy smart grid must consist of two distinct components: an interstate transmission “sustainable transmission grid” that will transport clean utility-scale renewable energy long distances to market, and a digital “smart distribution grid” to deliver this electricity efficiently to local consumers. Read more…

An Economic, Environmental, and National Security Imperative

Expanding and upgrading our electric power transmission and distribution system are vital to renewing America’s economic growth, strengthening national security, and addressing the threat of global climate change. Two critical investments are needed: Read more…

“If I am President, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal – in ten years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela.” Read more…

The Center for American Progress Action Fund will use this forum to shape our policy recommendations to senior leaders, as the nation begins to turn its attention to crafting a new national energy policy to promote clean alternative energy and increase efficiency and security by investing in modern infrastructure. Read more…

The Federal government should:

• Provide long-term extension of tax incentives for renewable energy production and energy efficiency. Establish incentives for the construction and purchase of super fuel efficient autos such as plug-in electric hybrid vehicles.

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