Local Power: Generating Clean Energy in Our Communities

Abstract

In light of the rapid pace of deployment of cost-effective renewable energy projects in Europe and China, it is clear that the United States will eventually make the transition from an electrical power generation model—that predominantly relies on environmentally and economically unsustainable fossil fuel and nuclear technologies to generate the vast majority of its electrical power—to a new one that utilizes, to the greatest extent possible, renewable sources of energy.