Unlocking energy innovation : how America can build a low-cost, low-carbon energy system

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Zero to Eighty in Forty -- 1- Beyond Wishful Thinking: Facts, Deductions,and Grounded Assertions About Climate and Energy -- 2- An Energy Innovation System That Works -- 3- Electric Utilities and the Three Waves of Energy Innovation -- 4- The First Wave of Innovation: Energy Efficiency in Buildings -- 5- The Second Wave of Innovation-Part I: Low-Carbon Electricity Supply -- 6- The Second Wave of Innovation-Part 2:The Rest of the Electricity System -- 7- The Third Wave of Innovation: Creating Breakthrough Options -- 8- Building a New American Energy Innovation System: A Ten-Point Framework -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.