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2007-08 Seminars
Coping with Competing Energy
Strategy Directions
Kenneth Kern
Director of the Office of Systems, Analysis and
Planning
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Abstract
The United States is confronting an energy
policy dilemma that involves the need to
simultaneously address three fundamentally different
energy strategy directions, each with alternative
solutions that potentially conflict with the
objectives of the others. These coincident energy
strategies include:
- Reducing the greenhouse gas
emissions related to our nation's energy
consumption,
- Improving the energy security
of the nation and
- Maintaining a healthy, globally
competitive U.S. economy.
In parallel, U.S. energy supply
forecasts have been falling and energy commodity
price forecasts have been escalating dramatically,
over the last few years. What are the implications
for developing an effective U.S. energy strategy
direction that doesn't harm U.S. interests in other
areas and what options may be available to help
address these disparate energy strategies,
simultaneously?
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