US power leaders focused on permitting, reliability as climate law takes root

摘要

Extreme weather and efforts to slash carbon emissions arechallenging the US power sector, but industry leaders say theyare ready to capitalize on massive new federal support forclean energy.“There’s no lack of threats, no lack of challenges, but I’mvery, very optimistic. I think the state of the energy industry isgreat,” Edison Electric Institute President Tom Kuhn said Jan.26 at the US Energy Association’s annual State of the EnergyIndustry Forum.