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EDF got thrilling news today<\/a> from Abu Dhabi (home to Masdar<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s first smart grid pilots): Zayed Future Energy Prize<\/a>\u00a0announced that Environmental Defense Fund received its $500,000 second runner-up award in the Small-to-Medium Size Enterprises\u00a0(SME) and\u00a0Non-Governmental Organizations\u00a0(NGO) category for our impact, long-term vision, leadership and innovation in renewable energy and sustainability.\u00a0 Carbon Disclosure Project received the $1.5 million prize in the NGO\/SME category and Orb Energy received the $1 million first runner-up award.<\/p>\n
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Source: Zayed Future Energy Prize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Power generation is the source of 40% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.\u00a0 Over the next two decades, the U.S. will invest two trillion dollars to replace our aging, inefficient electricity infrastructure \u2014 but there is no guarantee that this investment will move ahead in ways that maximize environmental benefit and secure the clean, low-carbon energy system we need to avoid a climate catastrophe.\u00a0 Indeed, a recent International Energy Agency report<\/a> warns that “without a bold change of policy direction [in the next five years], the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Decisions being made now on energy and infrastructure investments will make \u2014 or break \u2014 the path to climate stability, meaning we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity right now to revolutionize how we generate, distribute and use electricity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This award will\u00a0help us ensure that the smart grid will also be a green grid, one that increases efficiencies across the entire system, is open to innovation and new market entrants and intelligent enough to enable far greater penetration of clean energy and electric vehicles in the U.S., and ultimately throughout the world.\u00a0 It will also accelerate our work in energy efficiency to create a vibrant market for energy savings by tearing down barriers to private capital investment and showing companies how they can improve their bottom line by reducing energy waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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