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administration issued a call to action early in the year asking
them to make commitments on clean energy innovation, and "we've
seen a really overwhelming response," White House senior adviser
Brian Deese told reporters in a conference call late on Monday.
To help facilitate the commitments, the administration increased
access to federal information and provided technical assistance,
Deese said. However, the extent to which the White House's call
to action actually increased commitments they may have been
considering anyway was unclear.
In an example of these commitments, institutional investors at
the University of California's office of the chief investment
officer, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, the Alaska
Permanent Fund, and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association–College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA–CREF)
mobilized more than $1 billion for clean energy innovations.
That effort will help identify and screen companies and projects
for investments that help fight climate change, the White House
said.
In addition, the Energy Department said it would launch a Clean
Energy Impact Investment Center to help speed other financing
for clean energy.
"The idea is to make the department's resources ... including of
course our 17 national laboratories ... more readily available
to the public, including the mission driven investors," Energy
Secretary Ernest Moniz told reporters.
(Reporting by Timothy Gardner. Editing by Andre Grenon)
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