What will the future of energy look like?

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Meet some of the experts featured in Beyond the Light Switch:

Jeff Goodell – Environmental writer: How to Cool the Planet, Big Coal

Ralph Cavanagh – Director of Energy Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council

Howard Herzog – Senior Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative

David Hawkins – Director of Climate Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council

Ernie Moniz – Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anthony Earley, Jr. – Executive Chairman of the Board and former Chief Executive Officer, DTE Energy

Mike Morris – Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, American Electric Power

Clark Gellings – Vice President-Technology, Electric Power Research Institute

Sally Benson – Research Professor, Energy Resources Engineering; Director, Global Climate and Energy Project, Stanford University

Jim Rogers – Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy

Joe Romm – Editor of ClimateProgress.org; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress 

Stewart Brand – Cofounder, Long Now Foundation; Founding Editor, Whole Earth Catalog

Arjun Makhijani – President and Senior Engineer, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Amory Lovins – Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

Steven Chu – US Secretary of Energy

David Lochbaum – Director of the Nuclear Safety Project , Union of Concerned Scientists

Dan Kammen – Professor in the Energy and Resources Group; professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy; professor of Nuclear Engineering; director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, UC-Berkeley

Ed Lyman – Senior Scientist-Global Security, Union of Concerned Scientists

Fred Morse – US Senior Advisor, Abengoa

Denise Bode – Chief Executive Officer, American Wind Energy Association

Lester Lave – Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics; Director, Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative; Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon

Ed DeMeo – President, Renewable Energy Consulting Services

Saul Griffith – Cofounder: WattzOn, Makani Power, Squid labs, Optiopia, Inc.; Technical Advisor: Make Magazine, Popular Mechanics Magazine

Steve Wright – Administrator and Chief Executive Officer, Bonneville Power Administration

Elliot Mainzer – Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy, Bonneville Power Administration

Joseph Welch – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, ITC Holdings Corp.

Jon Wellinghoff  – Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Julie Blunden – Executive Vice President for Public Policy and Corporate Communications, SunPower Corp.

Dan Arvizu – Director and Chief Executive of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory