“The National Clean Energy Project is an initiative to forge new partnerships among industry, government, and advocacy organizations in pursuit of a new national energy policy that rebuilds our economy, frees us from dependency on foreign oil, and preserves our climate and our planet.”
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.
Policy from the Event: Wired for Progress Version 2.0 April 1, 2009
Bracken Hendricks provides an update to February’s CAP report in “Wired for Progress 2.0: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid” while John Podesta, T. Boone Pickens, and Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote a letter to the president on the need to rebuild our economy on the foundation of clean, domestic, renewable, and efficient energy by rewiring the national transmission grid.
Policy from the roundtable discussion: Building the New Economy February 23, 2009
In Wired for Progress, Bracken Hendricks outlines how to develop a secure, reliable, national, and clean electricity grid to power America’s coming clean energy economy. In addition to this report an energy grid 101 and a infographic on the four components of success on the clean energy pipeline have been produced by the Center for American Progress.
Policy from the Event 2008 National Clean Energy Summit August 18-19th 2008
The 2008 National Clean Energy Summit at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas produced an ambitious yet attainable outline for the future of clean energy in America and throughout the world including an outline of state and federal guiding principles to deliver to the upcoming national political conventions.
