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Published September 2009

The Council Recommends that:

• Congress support ten commercial-scale carbon capture demonstrations to be completed by 2020 and three to five at-scale demonstrations of energy storage technologies.
• Congress support three to five demonstrations of new nuclear reactors by 2018.
• The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) create the 21st  "Century Clean Energy Leadership Initiative" funded at $250 million to create regionally-based R&D test-beds and large-scale commercial pilots.