New England Energy Congress: preliminary report for public review

• Main Authors: Pratt, Robert L., Mayer, Jean, Buckley, John G., Spencer, Bailey
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY AND ECONOMY; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION; CONSUMPTION; AND UTILIZATION; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; ENERGY DEMAND; ENERGY SUPPLIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; COST; DATA COMPILATION; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FOSSIL FUELS; GRAPHS; IMPORTS; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEWS; TABLES; DATA; DATA FORMS; DOCUMENT TYPES; FUELS; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; INFORMATION; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL DATA; POWER; REACTOR MATERIALS; USA; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5802163; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5802163; https://doi.org/10.2172/5802163

The New England Energy Congress represents the concerted effort of a group of New Englanders to address the energy problem of the area. New England is dependent on oil, with fully 80% of its energy requirements derived from this single source. Detailed reports are presented by the Supply Committee (fossil fuels, nuclear, and alternative sources); the Committee on Economic Development Through Alternative Sources of Energy (defining the state of the art and future directions of the technologies applicable to renewable energy resources, specifically, biomass, direct solar, and wind/hydroelectric/tidal/wave energy; identifying, and formulating policies to reduce the institutional impediments and adverse environmental impacts of developing these resources; and evaluationg the relationship between renewable energy systems and regional economic development); Energy Demand Committee; Energy Conservation Committee; Regulatory and Institutional Processes Committee; and Energy Economics and Financing Committee.