NATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY POLICY JOINT HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND POWER OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JUNE 14, 21, 1979 [No. 68] (Committee on Science and Technology) Serial No. 96-98 (Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce) VOLUME VI Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Technology 54-948 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1979 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents. U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DON FUQUA, Florida, Chairman ROBERT A. ROE, New Jersey JIM LLOYD, California JEROME A. AMBRO, New York MARILYN LLOYD BOUQUARD, Tennessee RICHARD C. WHITE, Texas HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri DONALD J. PEASE, Ohio HOWARD WOLPE, Michigan NICHOLAS MAVROULES, Massachusetts BILL NELSON, Florida BERYL ANTHONY, JR., Arkansas STANLEY N. LUNDINE, New York ALLEN E. ERTEL, Pennsylvania KENT HANCE, Texas JOHN W. WYDLER, New York BARRY M. GOLDWATER, JR., California ROBERT K. DORNAN, California ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania KEN KRAMER, Colorado WILLIAM CARNEY, New York DONALD LAWRENCE RITTER, BILL ROYER, California COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia, Chairman JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, California RICHARDSON PREYER, North Carolinia JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey ANTHONY TOBY MOFFETT, Connecticut JIM SANTINI, Nevada ANDREW MAGUIRE, New Jersey MARTY RUSSO, Illinois EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts THOMAS A. LUKEN, Ohio DOUG WALGREN, Pennsylvania ALBERT GORE, JR., Tennessee BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland RONALD M. MOTTL, Ohio PHIL GRAMM, Texas AL SWIFT, Washington MICKEY LELAND, Texas RICHARD C. SHELBY, Alabama SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio JAMES T. BROYHILL, North Carolina TOM LOEFFLER, Texas WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER, California CONTENTS Panel I-Solar Energy Futures-Denis Hayes, Worldwatch Institute, Washing- ton, D.C.; Paul Craig, professor, Department of Applied Science, University of California-Davis; Gerald Bennington, associate department head, Advanced Energy and Resource Analysis, Mitre Corp., McLean, Va....... Panel II-Utility and Users Impacts-Homer J. Vick, vice president, Wisconsin Power Light Co.; Dr. Kirby Holte, Southern Edison Institute, on behalf of Edison Electric Institute, Rosemead, Calif.; Don von Raesfeld, city manager, Santa Clara, on behalf of the American Public Power Association, Santa Clara, Calif.; Alberta C. Slavin, commissioner, Missouri Public Service Com- mission, Jefferson City, Mo., and David Roe, regional counsel, Environmental Defense Fund, Berkeley, Calif... Panel III-Solar Research, Development and Demonstration Priorities and Strategies, Dr. Ken Touryan, 1536 Cole Boulevard, Dr. Thomas E. Stelson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. Douglas Balcomb, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, N. Mex.; Theodore B. Taylor, solar energy consultant, Damascus, Md.; Dr. Henry C. Kelly, Office of Technology Panel I-Private Sector Impacts-Ralph Wilham, Sheet Metal Workers Inter- national Association, accompanied by Walter Cosel, solar consultant; Ronald B. Peterson, president Grumman Energy Systems, Inc.; Anthony Adler, Solar Panel ÏÏ-Energy subsidies and the Government Role-Dr. John Gibbons, Director, Office of Technical Assessment, accompanied by Henry Kelly, Assistant Director, OTA, Dr. Thomas B. Johansson, Environmental studies program, University of Lund, and Secretariat for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden; Prof. Duane Chapman, Department of Economics, Cornell Univer- sity; Herb Epstein, Solar Lobby, Washington, D.C.; Herbert A. Wade, Missou- Alvin L. Alm, Assistant Secretary, Policy and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Energy, accompanied by Fred Morse, Acting Director, Office of Solar Applications; and Bennett Miller, Program Director, Solar, Geothermal, APPENDIXES Page |