Electricity, not oil, is the heart of the U.S. energy economy. Power plants consume as much raw energy as oil supplies to all cars, trucks, planes, homes, factories, offices, and chemical plants, and deliver much more useful power because they process the fuel much more efficiently. We generate electricity almost entirely with fuels other than oil and electricity is steadily displacing oil at the far end of the plug. Building out a high-voltage backbone grid to span the continent will lower the price of electricity and accelerate the electrification of major sectors of our economy still powered by oil.
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| 8:30 AM–9:30 AM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM–9:10 AM | Introductory Remarks Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Manhattan Institute |
| 9:10 AM–9:50 AM | Report Presentation The Million-Volt Answer To Oil Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Author, The Bottomless Well (Basic Books, 2005) |
| 9:50 AM–11:00 AM | Panel Discussion CREATING AN EFFICIENT NATIONAL ELECTRIC GRID: POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES Ashley Brown, Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Nick Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, Southwest Power Pool Ashok Gupta, Air and Energy Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Philip D. Moeller, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Committee Moderator: Steven F. Hayward, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
| 11:00 AM–12:00 PM | Keynote Address The Honorable George E. Pataki Introduction: Max Schulz, Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment |
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