Calling for a $16 billion increase in national energy research and development funding, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Nov. 29 released a blueprint for accelerating energy technology change. The panel called for realigning departments that touch on energy, but do not always coordinate on crossover issues. “This is needed because ‘energy policy’ is an amalgam, and often derivative, of policies for environment, competitiveness, security, finance, land use, and more,” noted the report. Ten billion dollars of the $16 billion the panel suggests should come from “new revenue streams” in cooperation with Congress and the private sector. The panel proposes putting the new organizing plan for energy cooperation and advancement under a “quadrennial energy review” process with short, intermediate, and long-term objectives. These would go to Congress and the executive branch. The first could be completed next year, according to the panel. A full review could be accomplished by 2015, it noted.