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Clean Energy Competitiveness Policy

A Clean Energy Comeback Strategy
The real race is to make clean energy cheap. And pole position is up for grabs.
October 2011

Surviving the Coming Clean Tech Crash
The best way for Washington to green America's economy is to employ new innovation and commercialization policies that will replace the old and expiring clean tech deployment subsidies.
August 2011

The Power to Compete: Benchmarking the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act on Clean Energy Innovation and Competitiveness
A new policy brief by the Breakthrough Institute and Americans for Energy Leadership, "The Power to Compete?", provides the first independent analysis of how the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act would impact U.S. competitiveness in the global clean energy industry.
June 2010

"Strengthening Clean Energy Competitiveness: Opportunities for America COMPETES Reauthorization"
In a new policy report, the Breakthrough Institute, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program call on Congress to strengthen clean energy competitiveness through the America COMPETES reauthorization.
June 2010

Clean energy jobs CAN be shipped overseas (and what to do about it)
Cap and trade won't bring those jobs back to America. Here's what will...
April 2010

A Clean Energy Competitiveness Strategy for America
Accelerating U.S. clean technology innovation, manufacturing, and market creation has become not just an environmental necessity but an economic imperative. A presentation and essay by Jesse Jenkins and Devon Swezey.
April 2010

Closing the clean energy gap with Asia
Charlie Gay, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus in the Austin Statesman.
March 2010

Storm Clouds on the Clean Tech Horizon: Presentation to the Clean Tech Group
Presentation by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. (pptx)
February 2010

"Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant" Report Overview
Benchmarking clean-tech competitiveness: A new report by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation provides the first comprehensive analysis of competitive positions among the U.S. and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.
November 2009

Winning the Clean Energy Race: A New Strategy for American Leadership
Asian nations are set to dominate the clean energy industry without a major energy competitiveness project by the U.S. government.
November 2009

"Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy" Report Overview
A report co-authored by the Breakthrough Institute and Third Way.
September 2009

Will America Lose the Clean Energy Race?
Breakthrough Institute's Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins raise the question in an op ed featured in today's San Francisco Chronicle.
July 2009

The Revolution Will Not Be Patented
We're already sending our clean-energy tech to China, and intellectual property law has nothing to do with it. ...Shellenberger and Nordhaus in Slate
May 2009

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