Keywords: clean energy, business leaders, climate change, american energy innovation council
What do Americans spend more money on – potato chips, or energy research and development? See video below for the answer.
Seven business leaders, founders of American Energy Innovation Council, delivered a Business Plan For America’s Energy Future. The leaders are:
- Norm Augustine, former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin
- Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox
- John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Bill Gates, chairman and former CEO of Microsoft
- Chad Holliday, chairman of Bank of America and former chairman and CEO of DuPont
- Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE
- Tim Solso, chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc.
The US is the largest consumer of energy in the world. The American Energy Innovation Council makes the case that there is a pressing need for energy innovation, and we need to invest in that innovation.
Though energy is a key strategic component of any countries wellbeing, US energy R&D spending has been in decline.
Though the US is the worlds largest energy consumer, it spends less on energy R&D than China, France, Japan and Korea.
The council’s recommendations:
- Create an independent national energy strategy board
- Invest $16 billion per year in clean energy innovation
- Create Centers of Excellence with strong domain expertise
- Fund ARPA-E at $1 billion per year
- Establish and fund a New Energy Challenge Program to build large-scale pilot projects
The full report can be viewed here, and for more on Bill Gates call for Zero Carbon emissions, see Bill Gates on Climate Change and Renewable Energy.
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Coal use is on the decline in the US. There are no new coal plants on the books to be constructed. US coal companies see the writing on the wall and are now trying to train the coal to US ports, for shipment to China and others. For China, that is a short term solution. China is constructing rail systems to their coal fields, and won’t have much need for US coal once they have access to their own. IN my view coal shouldn’t be burned until a reliable CCS is in place.