The Clean Energy Blueprint offers a menu of proven energy efficiency and renewable energy options that can drastically reduce America's dependence on imported oil and other traditional fuels, increase America's energy security and improve the environment, all at a small fraction of the cost of the traditional supply options being advanced by the Bush Administration. It should be our number one energy priority.
-- Richard Ottinger
   Dean Emeritus
   Pace Law School

The recent European experience confirms that today's wind generation is a proven and reliable resource that can and should play a far greater role in the nation's energy future. In addition to providing obvious environmental and resource diversity benefits, wind also furthers the critical objective of reducing our continued national dependence upon foreign oil. Moreover, retail consumers would see immediate price benefits from greater wind utilization, since the cost of the market support structures needed to develop wind resources (such as renewable portfolio standards) would be more than offset by the reductions in the market price of electricity that result when resources with no fuel costs, such as wind, are added to the mix of generation types within any competitive power pool.
-- Dennis Duffy, V.P.
   Energy Management, Inc.
   Wind power developer

The UCS report provides the sort of well reasoned and documented analysis of all energy options, not simply those favored by the existing fossil-fuel industry, that are needed to promote energy security and favorable economics through supply diversity. A renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) provides the sort of sound -- economically driven -- basis for a diverse and clean energy economy that should be embraced by free-market economists and environmentalists alike. In the process they can discover that 'the economy' and 'the environment' are allies, not adversaries.
-- Daniel M. Kammen
   Professor of Energy and Society
   Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy
   Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
   Energy and Resources Group (ERG)
   University of California, Berkeley