Dan Arvizu, director of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, explains that a brief window exists to dramatically increase the energy generated from renewable sources in the coming decades. Staff photos Justin Ide/Harvard News Office |
Current U.S. renewable energy goal too low, says head of national labFebruary 8, 2007By Alvin Powell
The head of the U.S. government's renewable energy lab said Monday (Feb. 5) that the federal government is doing "embarrassingly few things" to foster renewable energy, leaving leadership to the states at a time of opportunity to change the nation's energy future. Dan Arvizu, director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Colorado-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said a brief opening exists to dramatically increase the energy generated from renewable sources in the coming decades, but said more resources and a national policy promoting renewable energy will be needed to make it come true. "A few things are happening, but at the federal level, embarrassingly few things," Arvizu said in response to a question about government purchasing to stimulate the renewable market. "I see little happening at the federal level. Much more needs to happen." |
