The Clean Air-Innovative Technology Link
Enhancing Efficiency in the Electricity Industry
by Tina Kaarsberg, Julie Fox Gorte, and Dick Munson

Overview
Section 1 — Electricity Restructuring, Innovation, and Efficiency (PDF file)
Introduction
Innovation in America
Innovation and the State of U.S. Electric Utilities
Deregulation in Other Industries and Nations
Innovative Capacity in Deregulated Industries
Innovation, Deregulation, and Productivity
Conclusion

Section 2 — Promoting Productivity and Efficiency with Innovative Technologies (large PDF file)
Air Impacts of the U.S. Electric Industry
Fuel Types
Innovative Technologies
Innovative Configurations
Conclusion

Section 3 — Policies to Advance Competition and Innovation in the Electric Industry (PDF file)
Barriers to Innovation and Technology Development
Structural Barriers
Financial Barriers
Restructuring-Related Barriers
Environmental Barriers
Policy Options
Barrier Busting
Incentives
Conclusion

Appendixes (PDF file)
A: Creating More Routes to Innovation
B: Deregulation in Airlines, Motor Carriers, Telecommunications, and British Utilities
References
About the Authors

18 April 2001
http://www.nemw.org/cleanair-inovtech.htm