Accelerating clean energy technology research, development, and deployment: lessons from non-energy sectors
Climate change is one of the key challenges of this century. Specifically, balancing climate change mitigation and increased energy needs in developing countries poses a serious dilemma that can only be reconciled with new and improved clean energy technologies. However, to accelerate innovation in the energy sector, certain factors must be overcome, such as relatively low levels of research, development, and deployment (RD&D) funding and significant barriers to advancement. This paper addresses the necessary balance of climate change mitigation and energy needs while examining lessons learned from four case studies on new technology initiatives outside the energy sector.