Past Events
National Clean Energy Summit 2.0: Jobs and the New Economy August 10, 2009
Participants at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 in Las Vegas, NV, discussed ways smart federal and state-level policies can work to upscale existing markets for energy-efficiency retrofits, renewable energy, and energy infrastructure in a way that creates jobs, saves consumers money, and generates private investment. In conjunction with the summit, John Podesta and former Senator Timothy E. Wirth (D-CO) authored a short memo about the promise of natural gas as a bridge fuel for the 21st century, and CAP released a report with the Energy Future Coalition.
Rebuilding America: A Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits, Natural Gas: A Bridge Fuel for the 21st Century, Event Media
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Wired for Progress Version 2.0 April 1, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), energy executive T. Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund president and CEO John Podesta, convened a press conference in Washington, DC to release a joint letter to President Obama in which they thanked him for his leadership to date on clean energy and urged him to, “recommit [his] efforts to rapidly build the infrastructure for a new energy economy – using all the policy and leadership tools at [his] disposal.” The letter was accompanied by “Wired for Progress 2.0: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid,” a major policy paper written by Bracken Hendricks and published by the Center for American Progress “Wired for Progress 2.0” outlines the measures necessary to transform our nation’s electricity transmission and distribution systems to support massive new quantities of renewable energy and improve the intelligence, security, and reliability of the grid.
Letter to the President, Event Video, Wired for Progress 2.0:Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
NCEP: Building the New Economy Round Table February 23, 2009
The first National Clean Energy Summit in August 2008 identified the need for improved electricity transmission infrastructure as a major obstacle to our nation’s clean energy agenda. To address this specific challenge, the National Clean Energy Project convened a high-level round table forum in Washington, DC with business leaders, Cabinet secretaries and other elected officials, and the heads of industry associations and advocacy groups to identify key policies needed to build a national, clean energy smart grid. The policies identified would boost new renewable energy production, improve transmission and distribution, and help reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
Background Information, Vision Statment, Event Videos, Press Conference, Event Summary, Wired for Progress:Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
National Clean Energy Summit August 18-19th 2008
Industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, elected officials, citizens, and the media gathered in Nevada at the National Clean Energy Summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to chart a course for our nation’s clean energy future. Participants included President William Jefferson Clinton, Energy Executive T. Boone Pickens, CAPAF president John D. Podesta and over two dozen other leaders and executives from the public, private and non-profit sectors.
