As the world’s largest, most capital-intensive industry, energy is a vital resource to manufacturing, transportation, and domestic life. Energy also powers the devices and services driving technology, communication, and innovation. Affordable and reliable energy is critical for maintaining well-being, prosperity, security, and social progress. At the same time, the energy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis driven by climate change, technological innovation, and economics: from carbon-intensive to sustainable, from centralized to distributed, from commodity to service, and from vertically integrated to competitive.
Consumers don’t need to be sold on the benefits of moving to smarter, cheaper, and more sustainable ways to use power; they are already there. The majority of Americans see the impacts of climate…
