RENEWABLES COMPETITIVE

With extensive statistical analysis based on sound research,The Renewable Path to Energy Security is a report from highly respected think tanks World Watch Institute and Center for American Progress emphasizing the economic viability of New Energies:

-We as a nation have the ingenuity, know-how and determination necessary to create an energy-secure America. By capturing the energy of the wind and the light of the sun, the power of a mighty river or heat stored in the crust of the Earth, we can find new, untapped resources that create jobs, improve our security and improve the health of our people, our planet and our economy…

- [A]n energy future based on abundant and clean renewable sources is not only urgently needed, but achievable. The time is ripe for a strong national commitment to enacting new policies at the federal, state and local levels that will allow the United States to become a world leader in building a 21st Century energy system. Meeting that challenge will require concerted efforts by governments, businesses and citizens across our nation…

- If there was ever a time when a major shift in the U.S. energy economy was possible, it is now. Three decades of pioneering research and development by both the government and the private sector have yielded a host of promising new technologies that turn abundant domestic energy sources-including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, biomass, and ocean energy-into transportation fuels, electricity, and heat…