The NextGen Energy Council is active across a wide range of initiatives. Below are some of our most important current and planned activities.

NextGen Briefs State Legislators On Advanced Coal Technologies

NextGen briefed more than 125 State legislative leaders from coast-to-coast recently in Washington, D.C., at a standing-room-only workshop on the status of clean-coal technologies.

The briefing occurred during the winter meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Among the speakers were these industry experts:

• Mac McLennan - Tri State Generation
• John Weisgall - MidAmerican Energy
• Carrie Atiyeh - Evergreen Energy
• Jim Sears - A2BE Carbon Capture

To read more and view the presentations online, go here. 

More NextGen projects

1. Investing in the Nation's Energy Infrastructure                                                                                                       NextGen develops studies and participates in initiatives on an ongoing basis that promote the use of domestic energy resources and greater investment in the country's energy infrastructure especially transmission.
2. CO2 Pipeline Infrastructure Initiative
   NextGen works with key federal and state officials to develop economic and regulatory incentives that encourage investment in carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline infrastructure systems across the West.
3. Initiative:  Coal Refining And Biomass Blending As A CO2 Reduction Strategy
   NextGen's education initiatives investigate and support  the potential for coal refining and biomass blending technologies to sharply reduce emissions, including CO2, on a system-wide basis.
4. State Capital Briefings
   NextGen relies on a team of experts in technology development, finance, law, regulatory processes and other areas and hosts briefings in state capitals to educate elected officials and others involved in the public policy development process.
5. Develop and Promote Incentives For Enhanced CO2 Utilization
   NextGen continues to identify incentives that can encourage increased utilization of CO2 particularly for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) produced by energy development and generation in the West. 
6. News Media Education Campaign
   NextGen hosts briefings for news media representatives and editorial boards to help media professionals better understand the science and technological details behind advanced energy development and encourage more informed coverage of these issues.
7. Public Education Campaign
   NextGen works with a variety of organizations – such as the Americans For American Energy grassroots coalition – to promote greater education of the general public on the promise, realities and costs of advanced energy development.
8. Analyses: Clean Energy Technologies; Quantifying the True Costs to Consumers and How to Minimize Them                                                                                                                                                                                           These analyses provide public policy makers at the state and federal levels with unbiased cost-benefit analyses - emphasizing consumer impacts - of a variety of "clean energy" policy options now being discussed with policymakers and proposed strategies for minimizing these costs.