Buying Power: How Federal Procurement Can Drive Clean Energy Innovation

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
07/09/2022 at 12:00PM

Use of federal procurement to advance national clean energy goals and accelerate innovation has had limited success in the past. The Biden administration seeks to break this pattern with an ambitious “buy clean” program. For its effort to succeed, the plan must be well-aligned with agency missions, funded adequately, and fix perverse budget and procurement rules.

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Keynote Speaker

  • Andrew Mayock, Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Presenter

  • Dorothy Robyn, Senior Fellow, ITIF Center for Clean Energy Innovation and Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy

Moderator

  • David M. Hart, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Clean Energy Innovation

Panelists

  • Jim Connaughton, CEO, Nautilus Data Technologies, former George W. Bush CEQ chair
  • Xavier de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, Brookings Metro