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Media Relations

All the President's tech initiatives

CIO Today

February 17, 2006

All the President's tech initiatives

During his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush announced the Advanced Energy Initiative, a plan that he said would yield a 22 percent increase in clean-energy research and reduce oil imports from the Middle East by 75 percent. The plan also seeks breakthroughs in the way in which Americans power their homes and offices. But don't bank on reduced oil dependence just yet. This article in CIO Today explores various parts of the initiative and finds that many energy experts still have questions about critical details. IU's Ken Richards, associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, is one of them. According to Richards, "The State of the Union [address] is perhaps most notable for what it did not say about the Advanced Energy Initiative. It did not say how the 22 percent increase in funding would be distributed among the program components. Perhaps solar and wind were just thrown in as window dressing for an expansion of current programs."

Read the entire article at: http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100002R2TF

Fisit the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at: http://www.spea.indiana.edu/home/

For more on Ken Richards, go to: http://www.indiana.edu/~speaweb/fcltydir/richards.html

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