David Victor, co-chair of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings and professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego, and Christopher Clack, CEO of Vibrant Clean Energy, discuss the complexities of incorporating higher percentages of renewable energy into the electric grid, and the political and economic challenges facing the pursuit of zero-carbon emission energy.
Show notes:
How Renewable Energy Is Blowing Climate Change Efforts Off Course
Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar
Scientists Sharply Rebut Influential Renewable-Energy Plan
Why Bad Things Happen to Clean-Energy Startups
The next energy revolution: The promise and peril of high-tech innovation
With thanks to audio producer Gaston Reboredo and producer Vanessa Sauter, as well as additional support from Fred Dews.
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Authors
Commentary
PodcastRenewable energy and the path to a low-carbon energy future
David G. Victor,
David G. Victor
Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Christopher Clack, and
CC
Christopher Clack
CEO
- Vibrant Clean Energy
@DrChrisClack
Adrianna Pita
Adrianna Pita
Office of Communications
July 26, 2017