AEHI has never waited for the federal government to do anything. AEHI has, from the very start, identified what needs to be done and pressed ahead. Considering that CEO Don Gillispie is an INPO founder this comes as no real surprise.

Two days ago I posted a blog entry about how a group responsible for more than $15 trillion in assets was calling on nations to combat climate change or face severe economic disruptions (thank you Don for sending me that story). In that posting I touched upon the significant and positive impact that this would have on nuclear power.

So what do these two dynamics have to do with each other? Well an article by Rebecca Smith in this morning's Wall Street Journal titled Energy Industry Strikes Out on Its Own answers that question. According to the article, some of the heavy hitters in the nuclear industry are now rolling out what AEHI has been working to accomplish all along. And in the style of AEHI, these major players are not waiting for the federal governement to do what they feel is right.

It seems that the AEHI model has been proven once again and that people are waking up to the fact that in order to get things done we need to rely on ourselves and have faith in our abilities to accomplish great things. For myself, I am glad that we are all on the same team.

Rebecca's article can be found here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559504575631010457589470.html  

Here are a couple of excerpts:

A group of utility executives who once lobbied Congress to cap greenhouse-gas emissions say they are now pressing ahead with their own efforts to clean up the industry.

"We're making our own destiny," said Chris Gould, vice president of corporate strategy for Exelon Corp. in Chicago, the nation's largest owner of nuclear-power plants and one of the biggest backers of the failed "cap and trade" legislation.

Exelon plans to spend more than $5 billion by 2017 in ways that should cut its greenhouse-gas emissions. It includes as much as $290 million a year on energy-efficiency programs at utilities it owns in Illinois and Pennsylvania and $3.8 billion to increase the capacity of its existing nuclear plants by up to 1,500 megawatts.