SUMMIT AT UNLV: Clinton touts clean energy
Former President Bill Clinton challenged Americans Monday to make the United States a model of renewable energy use for the world to follow.
Clinton also called for a new system to transmit electrical power to urban areas from many of the remote places where it can be generated.
“Let’s face it,” Clinton said. “We’re not close, not even close, to where we need to be.”
To focus the nation on affordable energy free of greenhouse gas emissions, the federal government needs to offer tax credits for companies to invest in large-scale solar plants and wind farms complete with a more efficient transmission system.
Clinton called on industry and government to re-imagine the economics of clean energy, which requires a heavy front-end investment. When installing a solar power plant, 80 percent of the costs are up front, Clinton said. Read full story:
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