Full Title: Restoring American Energy Innovation Leadership: Report Card, Challenges, and Opportunities
Author(s): American Energy Innovation Council
Publisher(s): Bipartisan Policy Center
Publication Date: February 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
America’s competitive advantage is a tireless dedication to innovation, particularly in energy. U.S. companies are driving an energy boom today—in tight oil and shale gas production, renewable energy, efficiency, and much else—largely because they have significantly benefited from federally funded technology innovation, research and development over the last four decades. These investments, together with critical private-sector innovations and commercialization, have created dozens of technologies vital to America’s economic growth, competitiveness, and environment, such as unconventional gas extraction, advanced seismology, efficient clean engines, high-capacity batteries, natural gas turbines, and photovoltaic solar technology, among others.
The American Energy Innovation Council is a group of six corporate leaders who came together in 2010 as a result of a common concern over America’s insufficient commitment to energy innovation. We speak as executives with broad-based success in innovation, who, in the course of our careers, have been called upon to overcome obstacles, seize opportunities, and make difficult decisions, all in the pursuit of building great American companies. We seek to share that experience as it relates to meeting the clean energy challenge.