Had counties or local municipalities successfully challenge the industry. So while we dont have National Policy on this or limited National Policy, theres developing policy on a community level. Thats very important. Now, the story in new york started with this awareness with the big deal with the ifs sit farmers got sit farmers, the 110 million deal. And all this chain of events that went with that ended up with the moratorium in new york state. Meanwhile, pennsylvania has gone full ahead with it, and sitting right on the border youve really had a case study of two different states and the ramifications in these two different states with the development. Personally, and thats where all this comes home, right . I mean, we can talk all these technical things and policy things all along, but how does it affect people . And if you could switch to slide 13, please . I think you might have to skip over one or two. There we go, right there. Thank you. When i was working at the paper in 2008
Governor of the state of california we certainly do clapping well, thank you governor jerry brown and good evening, everyone thank you and welcome to San Francisco its a pleasure to Welcome Solar 2014 for a 7th year in a row thats great, thank you doctor weber we have developed a great partner with the Solar Company and its stunning we havent really left the days of the gold rush this was when pioneers and future seekers and immigrants all types of people came rushing into the San Francisco bay area to the state of california to find what to find answers to improve their lives it so happens that this spirit of innovation and entrepreneursship is still awake and instead of calling them the names of femur seeks we call them diserupts and innovators and one is the Solar Industry thats diserupt active in a fine sense the United States has seen a record growth in solar snauksz and, in fact, the average cost of the module has dropped 80 percent in the last 5 years . The hard work that confer
And the power solar in German Research institutes and others the institute for the ecology contributed some of the fundamental ideas that led to the German Energy transition and the nuking letter disaster in 2011 german thought about the energy in in favor falsify of a longterm energy relying on Renewable Resources what did this mean for industrial listed countries like german to reduce the energy by half and to be tossing 80 powers percent of our remaining energy by the year of 2050 our Energy Policy our top priority is the safe security phasing out the nuking last year energy and reducing our reliance on you switching to renewable sources with to become less vulnerable to external events one of our aims in the context is to have a highlevel of supply you security and rely the costs the energy must continue to be affordable for community the Gas Resources the fact along with the global gained p means that prices will rise and in the longterm the efficiency and the use of Renewable Ene
clapping so homeowners can find affordability financing their, their Renewable Energy and in fact, ive had a moment to talk to the governor were going to be joining the mayors across the state of california to bring up the mayors across the country to demands that president obama and other Pay Attention we need National Leadership we can get that by invoicing our voices as mayors clapping you know, solar is not the only industry thats thriving theres thanks to a business tax for clean tech firms 0 over 2 hundred and 10 having their haushdz in San Francisco their complimented by Financial Firms by their portfolios based in San Francisco this is all the same were creating a community that will be success whether its financed or violationy or Solar Companies with this coop liz im proud of what our city is doing and thank you for the opportunity to compliment the companies if i have a Solar Company that wants to find a location youre welcome here in San Francisco clapping and with that, se
Third renewable eventually we have to get to the level of energy and those types of source of energy were not raising the Green House Gases we have a long way to go and while its exciting to be with likes minded people its well, to take a pause and realize that the take were on now is not sustainable we have to make a turn and a shift anytime youre talking about an organism or political those shifts are not easy to make its just as harden in california we have to adapt policies and get insights and build consensus so its not about the elicit but the people themselves we have to build consensus so a Convention Like this contributes to it we have a consensus to build reanything else energy and build efficiently and thats our task Going Forward i noticed an email california is the 8th largest economic jurisdiction in the world weve surplus italy and russia i dont know if theres italians here but i dont know if we should, commemorated or congratulated but make sure our economy is able to e