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Clean Energy Bank Could Generate 2 Million Jobs and Drive $2 Billion In Investment

By Tracey de Morsella on August 13, 2009 1 Comment Carbon, Center for American Progress, clean energy, clean energy bank, Clean Energy Deployment Administration, clean energy innovation, clean energy jobs, Clean tech, climate bill, climate policies, Climate Progress, Coalition for the Green Bank, EIA, energy deployment, energy efficiency, green bank, green collar jobs, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, incentives, Jake Caldwell, market-based pollution-reduction program, Obama, predictable price signal

The creation of a Green Bank will encourage a long overdue integrated and strategic approach to clean-energy innovation, efficiency, and deployment in the United States. In combination with Senate action on clean energy—legislation that provides incentives for the research, development, and deployment of clean-energy technologies, and a market-based pollution-reduction program that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and reinforces a predictable price signal on carbon—the Green Bank will open credit markets, motivate private business to invest again, and create good, clean-energy jobs here at home.

U.S. To Establish Clean Energy Investment Agency

By Tracey de Morsella on May 11, 2009 Comments Off on U.S. To Establish Clean Energy Investment Agency 21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act, affordable energy, CEDA, Clean Energy Deployment Administration, Clean Energy Investment Fund, Clean Energy Technologies, clean energy-backed bonds, climate security, credit enhancements, Department of Energy, deployment, DOE, Energy Secretary ch, energy security, energy technologies, equity financing, Investments, Jeff Bingaman, Lisa Murkowski, loan guarantee program, loan guarantees, loans, secondary market support, sustainable energy, technology deployment

Last week, Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the “21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act.” This bipartisan bill, S. 949, is co-sponsored by Sens. Dorgan (D-ND), Voinovich (R-OH), Stabenow (D-MI), Lugar (R-IN), Shaheen (D-NH) and Burr (R-NC). The legislation seeks to improve the loan guarantee program at the Department of Energy (DOE) and to provide additional options for deploying energy technologies. The basis of the bill is to shore up the existing program at DOE, then transition to a new financially-focused agency to perform and expand upon the duties of the program.