C everybody, good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harman the president and ceo. Im a recovering politician, happy to be a recovering politician but its not an easy job. This place leverages Woodrow Wilson from president s to passions which were scholarship and policy and thats the intersection of the book we are going to talk about today. Its my pleasure to introduce a friend of many of ours,. I will explain why it is called him a and that is because there is the movie, has everyone seen the movie they open john movie . Dan and i sat next to each other recently a failed and john movie which is great. I recommend it. Dance that i want to come to the Wilson Center and talk about the book so is here and he will talk about this book. Has Everybody Knows he has to cheat sheet. You all memorized it with a nice picture of him. Hes the ceo of centrist energy corp. Hes a former deputy secretary and many of us worked with him in that job at the department of energy. Worked at th
Right now today, we have the technology to begin the process of significantly transforming our energy system. We know how to dod it with todays technology we know how to do it with todays technology, and that technology will only be improved in months and years to come. Let me just give you a few examples of some of the good news a thats happening in terms news thats happening in terms of the ability that we now have to move to Sustainable Energy. The cost of solar, which certainly will be one of the major Sustainable Energy technologies that we look to in the future, that Technology Cost continues to plummet. The Solar Energy Industry association, in a report issued just last week, reported that the average weighted cost of a solar p. V. System was 2. 59 per watt, a 15 drop from the year before. And according to the Solar Energy Industry association, utility scale solar, perhaps the best comparison to utilityscale conventional electricity generation, now costs, on average, 7. 7 cents
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