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[Smart Growth Around America] Energy, smart growth, climate change and the 2008 candidates (Part 1): We must commercialize clean coal technologies, including carbon sequestration, so we can utilize this vast domestic resource. Natural Gas: We should use clean-burning natural gas, especially to replace oil in large truck and bus fleets.”
[presidentialrace101.com] Where Obama Stands: On Energy and the Environment: Invest $150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid. A principal focus of this fund will be devoted to ensuring that technologies that are developed in the U.S. are rapidly commercialized in the U.S. and deployed around the globe.
[Gristmill] Hillary Clinton's climate and energy plan: Funding 10 "Smart Grid Cities." These public-private partnerships between states, cities, utilities, automakers and battery makers will deploy smart grid technology and plug-in hybrid vehicles on a large scale, as well as encourage other technological options to discourage consumption during peak cost periods like time of use meters and pricing, real time demand response, visual price meters, and "prepaid" service models. The projects will enable testing and refinement of advanced capabilities, such as the ability of plug-in hybrid vehicles to communicate with the smart grid to sell power back to utilities when utilities most need the power.
[.: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :.] Newsom: ”˜Green’ tech promises not good enough: What will you commit Oakland, San Jose, Larkspur, Corte Madera, Greenbrae, Novato and Sonoma?” And how do we get the U.S. Congress of Mayors to say, “We’ll (order) 100,000 plug-in hybrids to create a market?”
[biodieselnow - Renewable biodiesel fuel] 12 ideas to shape a healthier energy future: But this technology is limited by lack of transmission systems to connect remote wind farms with the electric grid. We need federal and state policies supporting new transmission systems. 7. Push solar research to make it commercially ...
[Hfamom's Weblog] The Remaining Four Candidates on Energy and Environment: The burning of oil and other fossil fuels is contributing to the dangerous accumulation of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere, altering our climate with the potential for major social, economic and political upheaval. The world is already feeling the powerful effects of global warming, and far more dire consequences are predicted if we let the growing deluge of greenhouse gas emissions continue, and wreak havoc with God’s creation.
[Gristmill] Clinton's climate and energy plan: With the release of Clinton's plan, all three Democratic frontrunners for the presidency now have visionary, far-reaching energy plans that would fundamentally reorient the country away from carbon-intensive energy and toward energy efficiency and renewables. It is difficult to think of a another policy issue on which the ground has shifted so far, so fast, and difficult to think of another policy issue on which the gulf between the two political parties is so vast and striking.
[Energy Tough Love Blog] Barack Obama for President - You thought Bill Clinton was long winded: Invest $150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid. A principal focus of this fund will be devoted to ensuring that technologies that are developed in the U.S. are rapidly commercialized in the U.S. and deployed around the globe.
[Universe] Political Science: Major components of this plan: increased fuel efficiency standards, helping automakers retool their production facilities through $20 billion in "Green Vehicle Bonds," a new cap-and-trade program that auctions 100 percent of permits, and a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund, paid for in part by oil companies, to fund investments in alternative energy. Plans to revive and expand the national assessment on climate change, expanding the assessment to include not only the anticipated impacts of climate change, but also how U.S. regions and economic sectors can respond to climate change through mitigation and adaptation.
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