The Energy Policy Act of 2005 recognizes the need to promote and support the deployment of advanced energy technologies to enhance the nation’s electric generation mix, as it recognizes the need to encourage the commercialization and increased use of a variety of energy projects, including renewable energy, advanced nuclear energy, advanced coal plants, efficient transmission and distribution technologies, carbon capture and sequestration projects, and other technologies to meet the growth of electricity demand and to avoid , reduce, or sequester air pollutants and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission.