Reed Hundt, Chief Executive Officer of Coalition for Green Capital, argues that natural gas is the “atomic bomb” of the energy debate in this clip from our Innovation Summit on April 17, 2012.
The panel of experts discussed renewable energy in the wake of Solyndra and how the debate can move forward.
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, Blogger, The New York Times
Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (Ret.), President, American Council on Renewable Energy
Robert Hefner, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The GHK Companies
Reed Hundt, Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Green Capital
Ron Smith, Co-Founder and President, Verdant Power
On May 19th, 2012 at 11:38 pm jerry dycus Said:
That’s because they work in the wholesale market. The real money, savings are those saving retail rates which are 2-3x’s wholesale ones.
It’s home/building solar, wind, CSP, CHP, etc that is cost effective even against such low NG prices which about equal $.28/gal gasoline equivalent or so.