Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment - With sales growing 40 perc… read more
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment - With sales growing 40 percent annually and costs falling rapidly, solar power has emerged as a core technology in America’s transition a clean energy economy. Solar energy brings opportunity in the form of new jobs and rapid technological development. It also presents potential new challenges in the way we use land and infrastructure and the way we distribute and store energy. Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing entitled, “Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment,” examining current issues in solar energy development. WITNESS LIST: Dr. Stephanie A. Burns, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dow Corning; Frank De Rosa, Chief Executive Officer, NextLight Renewable Power; Steve Kline, Vice President for Corporate Environmental and Federal Affairs, Pacific Gas and Electric; close
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