If the personal energy and passion of the Assistant Secretary of Energy, for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) could be harvested, we’d have quite a power source. In a marked style contrast to his boss, Sam Bodman, Karsner is engaged and enthusiastic – about the industry, its potential, and what can and should be done about it. He gives a good speech. Despite the stylistic differences, the messages were aligned in the DoE.

During the keynote session yesterday, he was very tough on Congress effectively foreshadowing the Energy Bill that was adopted late in the day yesterday by the Senate. Curiously, the Republican Administration and the Republican representatives in the Senate are not on the same page. Both Bodman and Karsner talked about the necessity of a stable policy toward renewable energy mentioning the incentives by name.

Karsner ripped the law makers for lack of vision and action on the energy bill and its proposed content – in a way that perhaps seemed overly harsh at the time. Not so now, Karsner was right.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 pm and is filed under Policy.