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:
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.
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