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Energy Innovations: A Prosperous Path to a Clean Environment
This groundbreaking study shows the prosperous path to global climate protection. Energy Innovations analyzes a balanced national strategy that can out the United States on an innovative, prosperous path leading to an economically and environmentally sustainable energy future. This Innovation Path is marked by a set of programs and policies that would guide our economy toward lower cost, less polluting, more secure, and more sustainable ways of producing and using energy. The approach involves setting fair performance standards, creating incentives, providing better information, and reducing transaction costs in order to foster investments in clean and efficient technologies. Backed by in-depth engineering and economic analysis, the study demonstrates the benefits of choosing the Innovation Path, rather than remaining on the Present Path of inefficient, fossil-fuel dependent energy production and consumption.
This 1997 analysis was initiated and carried out as a collaborative effort by the Alliance to Save Energy, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Tellus Institute, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. An electronic version of the executive summary, including key results, is available by clicking on the link above. Although the full report is no longer available in electronic format, you can purchase a print copy by visiting our publications page (see link above).
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