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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

"As America looks to dramatically increase its use of renewable energy, an inconvenient reality stands in the way: the need to upgrade the country's antiquated electricity grid. Part of that overhaul involves the construction of gigantic and expensive long-distance transmission lines to carry clean energy from remote sites to population centers. ...

Complicating the matter are claims that the transmission lines are not actually carrying renewable energy at all, but represent a thinly-disguised strategy to stick to old energy practices.

The green energy dream: Why it may not happen."

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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

"The Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC or
Committee) has assessed the current electric power
delivery system infrastructure and concludes that it
will be unable to ensure a reliable, cost-effective,
secure, and environmentally sustainable supply of
electricity for the next two decades.

The early warning signs of a declining electric power
delivery infrastructure are visible today. Fuel
transportation, particularly by rail, is congested, and
any outage of a rail line can create stress on electric
power supply. Coal piles at power plants have been
low in the recent past. Much of the electricity supply
and delivery infrastructure is nearing the end of its
useful life. Without attention, natural gas demand
could grow faster than the supply and capacity of the
associated infrastructure to produce and deliver it.
Spent nuclear fuel storage at some reactors is
reaching capacity without any policy direction on
long-term storage or reprocessing of spent nuclear
fuel. The integration of renewable energy resources
rises and falls with the ebb and flow of congressional
legislation to fund the production tax credits (PTCs).
The transmission infrastructure is aging and
becoming more congested. Further development of
the infrastructure is impeded by an archaic patchwork
of cost allocation policies, fragmented permitting and
siting practices, and varying needs analyses that are
limited in focus and scope.

The engineering, science, and technology expertise
required to meet the formidable technical challenges
of keeping the lights on in the future is disappearing...."

www.oe.energy.gov/Docu......

New Index for Carbon Credit Trading

"Environmental regulators are laying the groundwork for tougher controls on new coal-fired power plants in the administration of president-elect Barack Obama.

The industry was put on notice last month, when the Environmental Protection Agency’s appeals panel rejected a permit for a coal power plant in Utah issued by its Denver office. It found the office had not justified its failure to consider carbon emissions in the application."

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