Download or read book Low-Carbon Electricity Supply, digital original edition written by Richard K. Lester and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be radically overhauled. This BIT describes innovation that enables low-carbon technologies to supplant natural gas and other fossil fuels for power generation.