Renewable Energy: Practical Alternatives or Costly Diversion of Resources?

Triangle Lawyers Chapter

Speakers:

• Jeffrey B. Clark, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• Kenneth P. Green, American Enterprise Institute
• Sam Watson, Senior Staff Attorney, North Carolina Utilities Commission

Speakers:

• Jeffrey B. Clark, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• Kenneth P. Green, American Enterprise Institute
• Sam Watson, Senior Staff Attorney, North Carolina Utilities Commission

A lot of policymakers talk about renewable sources of energy, but is it just rhetoric or a real call to find alternatives that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy independence? What are the most promising types of renewable sources of energy? Are options such as wind turbines, solar, and ethanol practical options to produce energy? What are the costs, both financial and environmental, for these renewable options? And what are the costs and unintended consequences of state by state or national regulation of the energy producing industries? This panel will explore these issues and identify how the state and federal government have tried to push the use of renewable energy.

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