{"id":46761,"date":"2016-11-18T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=46761"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:38:30","slug":"energy-and-power-company-leaders-meet-in-chicago-to-call-for-a-clean-energy-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/energy-and-power-company-leaders-meet-in-chicago-to-call-for-a-clean-energy-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy and power company leaders meet in Chicago to call for a clean energy surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Chicago Energy Conference\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/192051605?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Puja Bhattacharjee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">It&#8217;s time. Energy leaders are calling for a shift to renewable power sources to meet future needs for utility companies, including for Commonwealth Edison Co.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you take the systems we have built into smart systems and turn it clean?&#8221; asked Anne Pramaggiore, president and CEO of ComEd. You build up solar and wind, she said, a point echoed by other utility leaders and energy experts at the recent conference Empowering Companies &amp; Cities. The Energy Times, an online magazine and newsletter covering electric power and utilities, organized the conference.<\/p>\n<p>The clean energy transformation should start now, said Jeremy Rifkin, an economic and energy advisor to the European Union. &#8220;The next big bubble, I&#8217;m gonna tell you, [will be] the stranded assets in the fossil fuel industry and it is going to make the subprime [financial crisis] look like a tiny little startup game,&#8221; Rifkin said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Energy and power company leaders gathered in Chicago called for a shift to alternative energy sources.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Puja Bhattacharjee It&#8217;s time. Energy leaders are calling for a shift to renewable power sources to meet future needs for utility companies, including for Commonwealth Edison Co. &#8220;How do you take the systems we have built into smart systems and turn it clean?&#8221; asked Anne Pramaggiore, president and CEO of ComEd. 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