Windpower Engineering & Development quotes Founding Director of the Global Energy Center Richard L. Morningstar on the role of renewable energy in addressing security and development challenges around the world from an Atlantic Council event on the renewable energy transition:
Energy industry leaders met in Washington DC to discuss renewable energy as an important component of US energy policy – key to addressing the issues of climate change, energy security, and economic development. The event, The Renewable Energy Transition, is coorganized by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center.
Richard Morningstar, Director of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center said, “The world tends to see energy geopolitics as relations amongst states that are defined by hydrocarbons, but fails to really incorporate the important role and impact that effective, sustainable energy development can have in addressing security and development challenges around the world.”