Discussion: "Will clean energy take our economy to the cleaners?" 5/12

Please join UMD’s Clark School of Engineering for our third Whiting-Turner Business & Entrepreneurial Lecture of 2016:

Will clean energy take our economy to the cleaners?

Who:

Dr. Kristina Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Cube Hydro Partners

When:

Thursday, May 12, 2016

5:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m. free pizza reception (while supplies last)

Where:

Lecture Hall, 1110 Kim Engineering Building

Please RSVP:

http://go.umd.edu/2016W-TJohnson

In 2009 when the Obama–Biden ticket was inaugurated into office, they set out to accomplish the following aspirational goals:

Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade systems to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% of 2005 levels by 2050;

Save more oil than we import from the Middle East and Venezuela by 2019;

Ensure 10% of our electricity comes from renewables in 2012 and 25% by 2025;

Put one million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015; and

Create five million jobs by investing $150 billion over 10 years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean-energy future.

And in the 2011 State of the Union address, the President put forth a goal to reach 80% clean electricity by 2035. The Office of the Under Secretary for Energy at the US Department of Energy put together a plan to realize these goals, along with the cost of attaining 80% clean electricity by 2035. This talk will summarize this "Strategic Technology Energy Plan (STEP)" and progress made on achieving this plan to date, and highlight the unique role of run-of-river hydroelectric power generation in carrying out STEP.

More information:

http://go.umd.edu/johnson