Renewable Energy Roundtable

摘要

There's a lot of talk about disruptive technologies in the market these days. Whether it's an app-pow-ered taxi service or the next high-performance electric car, that term disruptive is as alluring as ever. Time was when renewable energy was the new kid on the block. Even these decades on, when renewable technologies are mature and dependable, there's still plenty of disruption to be written about as wind, solar, and geothermal technologies are integrated into fossil-centric power generation portfolios. If renew-ables are to gain the market, they must prove themselves cost competitive with incumbent fuels like coal and natural gas. This puts them at the mercy of production and investment tax policy, and the unpredictability of lawmaking at the federal level.