PCAST Releases New Report on Energy Policy

Dec 3, 2010

On November 29 the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its Report to the President on Accelerating the Pace of Change in Energy Technologies Through an Integrated Federal Energy Policy.  At a briefing held at AAAS to launch the report, PCAST members Ernest Moniz of MIT and Maxine Savitz of the National Academy of Engineering outlined the report’s major recommendations, which include establishing a Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) process for creating a government-wide federal energy strategy and increasing energy R&D expenditures by $10 billion annually.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-energy-tech-report.pdf