66: Accelerating Clean, Affordable Electricity

Clean electricity technologies are here and they’re affordable. So why does most of our power in the U.S. still come from fossil fuels? Daniel Cohan, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Rice University and a Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar, joined Baker Briefing to explain how bureaucratic bottlenecks have led to a backlog of wind, solar, and battery storage power projects that could, if built, revolutionize the grid and greatly reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change and air pollution. Discussants Daniel S. Cohan, Ph.D. Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University The Honorable David M. Satterfield Director, Rice University’s Baker Institute