I attended an excellent briefing today on “Creating a low-carbon future” by Michael Howard of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The event was hosted by the U. S. Energy Association and its executive director, Barry Worthington. EPRI has done a lot of work on how the electricity sector could meet the greenhouse gas emissions target in the Waxman-Markey energy-rationing bill. That target is economy-wide emissions 83% below 2005 levels by 2050.
Howard said that EPRI wanted to identify a strategy…
