As midterm elections quickly approach, questions and predictions continue about which energy issues will garner the most attention over the next two years from Congress and other policymakers and influencers. While some new topics have emerged to dominate energy headlines more recently, other issues, such as nuclear waste management, continue to be relevant. Please share your input on what topics require attention from our federal policymakers.
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Negate Harry Reid and complete the NRC review of the license application for the Yucca Mountain Radioactive Waste Repository.
Albert,
Agreed!! But don’t you think it is a bit late?
Give it up. Yucca mountain is not happening any time soon, and it is bi-partisan and Native American opposition. Better choice would be to look at the Finnish-French fission waste… Read more »
Regulatory reform is needed to speed up oil and gas production both on the OCS and in onshore federal lands.
A very important issue: reviving nuclear power, including the financing of Gen III reactors, the introduction of small reactors, the disposal of nuclear waste, and educating the public regarding the… Read more »
The federal government should extend expiring tax incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy, focus incentives to harden and upgrade critical energy infrastructure (pipelines and transmission lines), and enhance programs… Read more »
Clean energy inventions should be a top priority. The current “Gallery of Clean Energy Inventions” exhibit is at https://app.box.com/CLEANENERGYEXHIBIT. Seven separate exhibits are of 16 “Larger Generators”, 17 “Smaller Generators”,… Read more »
Assuming, after court appeals, that the EPA Clean Energy Plan will accelerate closures of coal-fired electric generation over the coming decade, federal policymakers should accelerate both the build-out of interstate… Read more »
This is already happening. ISO-NE is now over 50% natural gas for electric generation. The pipeline standards have to be modernized and paid for by ratepayers. The same is true… Read more »
Power Plant curbs on emissions are my first ACTION priority. The new rules are underway, but they are under attack by the fossil industries and their spokespersons like the Chamber… Read more »
We should be looking at the future reliability and energy conversion efficiency of the power grid. The grid operation is the foundation of our prosperous society. Absent the reliable and… Read more »
Jack, You should check out the Clean Coalition webinar from last week .. http://www.clean-coalition.org/resources/planning-the-grid-to-optimize-distributed-energy-resources/ The info is up now …. Hunter Point in CA is an interesting pilot for the… Read more »
Carbon pricing (not just for power plants).
Yes! The carbon issue as well as the methane issue must be considered in choices.
The wording is quite tricky. But here and now, RFS could be replaced by a low-carbon fuel standard, as I described at http://www.werbos.com/oil.htm, in a way which would be a… Read more »
If the status quo continues, in only 7 more fiscal years 100% of federal tax revenues will be consumed by entitlements. Every other item in the federal budget will have… Read more »
Lewis, I am astonished! Are you saying there will be no money for green energy? How do we fight the war on carbon? The new war on terrorism? Not to… Read more »
In era of low inflation, what’s wrong with the fed keeping the economy up by the (virtual) printing of dollars? There seems some puritanical issue about money. Yes, Moises bin… Read more »