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March 5, 2019
“Electrification” can create new opportunities to achieve key national economic and environmental goals. There are many opportunities across the residential and commercial sectors. Advances in electric technologies continue to improve our quality of life, while significant decreases in the electricity sector's greenhouse gas emissions are making electricity more appealing from an environmental perspective. Attendees learned how environmental benefits, increased affordability, and economic progress are not mutually exclusive, and how a low-carbon economy of the future can be approached through electrification.
Barbara Tyran, Executive Director, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Steve Koep, Board Member, Beneficial Electrification League (BEL)
Keith Dennis, Senior Director, Consumer-Member Engagement, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
Derek Murrow, Senior Director, Climate & Clean Energy Program, National Resource Defense Council (NRDC)