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• BP is an ardent supporter of a federal RPS, butbased on the example of the UK, BP knows that anational RPS, alone, is not sufficient if we are tomeet the 25 x 25 goal.• The US federal and state governments mustremove barriers to the scale-up of transmissionsystems. Washington should authorize constructionof interstate transmission lines. Thelatest smart grid proposal is a good first step.“The future is in our hands. This is ourindustry’s big chance. Can we provethat we can deliver energy that is cleanand secure? Can we help put Americaback to work? Can we performefficiently and sustainably? I say yes,we definitely can.”Hermann ScheerMember, German BundestagSummaryIntroduced as “the founder of the World Councilfor Renewable Energy,” Hermann Scheer gave aglobal perspective on the many crises that weface and the why renewable energy can providesolutions to many of the world’s problems.“At WIREC, one year ago, I starteda speech by saying, ‘There is goodnews and bad news. The badnews was: oil runs out. The goodnews was—and is—oil runs out.’”It is not just one problem behind the need to change from fossil and nuclear fuels to renewableenergy, said Scheer, but actually 7 different world energy crises that compel a global shift toclean, renewable sources:• The climate change crisis,• The power availability crisis,• The crisis of third-world countries becoming more and more unable to pay their energy bills(currently 40 countries in the developing world pay more for oil than they earn through exportof goods),• The health care crisis, which, Scheer said, is caused in many ways by the world’s dependence ontraditional energy,• The increasingly dangerous threat of nuclear proliferation,• The imminent and increasing water crisis (conventional energy production is one of the top threewater consumers), and• The increasing agri-crisis which encompasses loss of land, particularly the loss of arable soil dueto the increased use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.American Council On Renewable EnergyExecutive Summary Report 11