RED video explains how to reduce policy barriers that block energy recycling

Recycled Energy Development (RED) has released a new video that proposes policies to encourage the more efficient generation of heat and power, which accounts for two-thirds of our greenhouse-gas emissions. The video, entitled “Barriers,” explains the practical consequences of today’s environmental and energy regulations that discourage clean energy production. According to RED chairman Tom Casten, “We could dramatically improve cost and fuel efficiency while producing clean, carbon-free power.”

Two policy proposals are advanced. A Clean Energy Standard Offer Program (CESOP) would provide clean power at a discount, while output-based pollution credits would keep the government from selecting technology winners and allow clean-energy producers to benefit directly from polluter payments.