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
Renewable energy, efficiency, elegance in the way we handle resources. Today, of course, we know a lot more. We know about Climate Change. We know about population, several billion more. We know if the demographers are right, the world will add 2 billion people. We now have 2 billion cars. The last time there were a couple hundred million cars. In fact, cars are reproducing faster than people. [laughter] and as long as theyre using oil weve got a problem. Thats why in california we have a goal to have a million electric vehicles by 2025. applause so, thats just within the last two months, we actually recorded over 2000 megawatts of solar energy being put into the grid, which is more than [speaker not understood] provided. applause of course, the solar works for six hours or so and Nuclear Works for, you know, four times as long. However, it leaves a little bit of a tail afterwards that has to be dealt with. So, but its an important milestone. And california does have the goal of 33 Ren
So, but its an important milestone. And california does have the goal of 33 Renewable Energy. We have the goal of a million solar rooftops. We already have over 130,000 installations on homes and small businesses. So, were looking at utility, scale, installation of solar, were looking at individual homes, and businesses. So, wherever we can, we are encouraging it. Were number oned in the country. Were going to keep on going. Its very critical. Now, i know from the idea to the execution to the secure realization, it takes a long time. And we have to have patience. We have to have staying power. So, thats the dilemma. We look at most of the countries. Germany certainly an exception, but most are not stepping up to the plate. There is a complete disproportion between the knowledge and the magnitude of the knowledge about and the magnitude of Climate Change and what its going to do to the way to our way of life and our response. The response is feeble compared to the challenge, and weve go
Hundred motorcyclists. Our part will be on july 16th at the distracting whos address is 508 Fourth Street between bryant and brian even. Its our 10th anniversary. So we expect because the dictating didnt have a ipod but invite our friends its a an important milestone we made it for 10 years. Its an amazing thing for sure are you announcing the times. Its on offsite meeting we will be a one agenda item will be our Commission Elections so well be electing a new chair and vice chair of this commission. Think about it who you want to nominate and what you want to do and lets try to make it a quick and easy process so we can proceed to the party do we nominate there. Yes, we nominate and vote there. Okay. So have you not been to an election bryant yes. All right. Yes, sir. I want to commit that after the last meeting i went home and had a warm feeling about how the commission has been working and i want to extend to any fellow commissioners i would say the last couple of months i felt very
Staff and speakers from the state and from other scientific fields will be here to address you in a moment. But there is no better place for the Solar Industry than to really come together and meet right here in our great city. We are home to more than 19 megawatts of solar installation, and over 21 1 Clean Tech Companies that are driving innovation for the rest of the world right here in San Francisco ~. We are bold, and were not afraid to be bold. Thats why we are moving to 100 Renewable Energy in our city. We want to reduce our carbon. We want to green our buildings. And we want to become a mecca for clean transportation. This year we are proud to be the number one spot on the clean edge u. S. Metro clean tech index for all cities in the continental united states. Our city has launched effective and powerful solar programs, and weve set an ambitious Clean Energy Goal of having 100 citywide electricity come from renewable sources within the next 10 years. In the past decade, weve alr