文档介绍：An Innovation Agenda for Advanced
Renewable Energy Technologies
ROBERT ROZANSKY | DECEMBER 2020
Innovation in renewable energy technologies, tapping solar, wind, geothermal, and water
resources, could unlock massive decarbonization opportunities. But it will not happen without
increased, sustained, and well-targeted federal investments.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
▪ Recent rapid progress in wind and solar power marks only the beginning of the
renewables revolution. If clean energy is to supplant unabated fossil fuels, especially in
the developing world, renewables must become even more affordable and reliable.
▪ There are many exciting opportunities to accelerate innovation in solar photovoltaics,
wind, geothermal, concentrating solar, hydro, and marine power technologies.
▪ Advanced renewables that can provide firm power to alleviate the variability plaguing
today’s solar PV and wind systems are particularly important to pursue in light of the
challenges that face alternatives like nuclear power and carbon capture.
▪ Federal research, development, and demonstration programs in each of the six advanced
renewables technology areas should focus on a distinct set of challenges to bring
innovations to maturity and jumpstart deployment.
▪ Federal investment must increase significantly if these challenges are to be surmounted
rapidly enough for advanced renewables to contribute at scale to the transition to low-
carbon energy in the coming decades.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION | DECEMBER 2020
INTRODUCTION
The clean energy success story of the 21st century is the astonishing rate at which solar
photovoltaic (PV) and wind power have gotten cheap