US Innovation and Energy Transformation Program

Posted on | February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

Now the business and political landscape that surrounds energy transformation is changing rapidly. The United States Department of Energy has started a large scale energy transformation program, which has started by analyzing the transformation needs and opportunities sector by sector.
This is an extremely important first step in the right direction, and it is completely in line with the ideas presented in Global Energy Transformation.

In a video posted at YouTube, Undersecretary of Energy at the Department of Energy, Christina Johnson, describes the program, its goals and the first steps toward developing a plan. In the same video, from a seminar on Innovation and Energy Transformation, sponsored by Google, representatives from UC Berkeley, MIT and Stanford describe their recent multidisciplinary initiatives in the area of energy transformation. These initiatives combine technical and business research and research in other social sciences, such as rhetoric!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLHiN6cWes

Our guess is that, in hindsight, however, it will be seen as the beginning of the beginning. The small scale efforts that we have seen so far will only be remotely similar to the large scale planned and managed transformation efforts of the near future. They may perhaps be similar to each other in the same way that a number of small sailing boats going in different directions on a lake are similar to a large cruise ship that carries thousands of people across the sea, that is – not very.

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