With electricians and tim paulson with the Labor Council and mike casey president in the back of the room over there. This is a project of the kind that makes Building Trades workers salivate. It is a startingly beautiful design from what we have seen so far. I am going to embarrass myself and speak in norwegian and its the kind of project where we can look forward to bringing our skills to work on a project that will fully demand those skills, so that is quite apart from the hours it will bring to us, it quite a part from the food we will put on the table and the house payments and so on. Thats one of the reasons this project really excites us and its a dramatic project. However, we are happy to try to minimize the drama of actually building the project and this is what this particular agreement d a lot of things are in this particular agreement and i think its a real accomplishment, something that will provide us a practical and effective means of addressing local hire andet going sa
applause well, thank you and welcome to california. Its a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. And thats important. But being in the lead doesnt mean weve arrived at the goal. Got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and Renewable Energy or generally. Back when i was governor the first time, that was a long time ago some of you folks werent even born then not too many. I see a few gray hairs here who are hanging around. That was a long time ago, 38 years ago, as a matter of fact. Very few people get to be governor 38 years after they first started. [laughter] with a 28year hiatus. applause so, i guess i have to expiate my Many Political sins and i spent time in the wilderness. But i am back and i can reflect on how poli
Things. And so instead of it being Design Professionals and people in the Real Estate Industry sort of imposing on the world what they think the world wants, it is sort of coming the other direction. If that is, in fact, a new trend, i was not the only person who left that room sort of saying, gee, i feel old, you know . In terms of this is a whole new way in which were going to now be doing our business in the Real Estate Industry . And i think todays speakers are going to focus on various parts of all of that. And i think that is a large part of what makes San Francisco such an exciting environment now. So thank you everybody. [ applause ] thank you and thanks again to shephard mullen. So im not going to take a lot of time with the mayors introduction, because i want to give him all the time and i know he has a busy schedule, but we do appreciate that he has continued our tradition of every year having our mayor speak at this event and sharing the vision, his vision for the future, f
applause well, thank you and welcome to california. Its a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. And thats important. But being in the lead doesnt mean weve arrived at the goal. Got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and Renewable Energy or generally. Back when i was governor the first time, that was a long time ago some of you folks werent even born then not too many. I see a few gray hairs here who are hanging around. That was a long time ago, 38 years ago, as a matter of fact. Very few people get to be governor 38 years after they first started. [laughter] with a 28year hiatus. applause so, i guess i have to expiate my Many Political sins and i spent time in the wilderness. But i am back and i can reflect on how poli
Nonmunicipal solar installations in our city that totaled about 3 megawatts. Today that number is nearly quadrupled. We have over 3 40 that total 12 megawatts of power. And this is saving san franciscans more than 41 2 Million Dollars a year on their electrical bills and reducing 6,000 metric tons of co2 in the atmosphere annually. Thank you. applause every bit counts. And many of these installations are becoming the standard rather than the exception and were focused on installing them in all of our lowincome homes and Affordable Housing developments as we build in this city. And as jerry brown said earlier, we are increasing our population, but were going to build the right way. Our city has also streamlined the permitting process and reduced the permitting cost for San Francisco residents. You our residential solar permits are available on the counter, over the counter, and online, and we have one of the lowest fees in the state of california and were going to keep it that way. Were