When: Friday, February 24, 2012 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.Where: AEI, Twelfth Floor
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
About This Event
From both the left and the right, "renewable energy" sources such as wind power, solar power and biofuels have been promoted as the answer to a laundry list of energy-related concerns, such as oil price shocks, supply interruptions, funding terrorists, local pollution and global climate change. Many states have enacted renewable energy standards, and, as is often the case in environmental matters, California has been an early leader in implementing ambitious renewable energy standards. But two new analyses suggest that the renewable energy paradigm is failing: rather than providing abundant, affordable energy, the increasing reliance on renewables is leading to less reliable, more expensive energy. Join us as AEI visiting scholar Benjamin Zycher and University of Wyoming professor Timothy Considine discuss the results of their recent research into renewable energy, with counterpoints from Kate Gordon of the Center for American Progress and Jimmy Glotfelty, CEO of Clean Line Energy.
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