tied together in now and into the future so california has been pioneering those items we have the keep that in mind program and the building efficiency and our alliance efficiency our zero vehicle program and by the way, it will hit the hundred thousand mark very soon (clapping) and we have our high speed rail program that will be delivered by renewable energy hopefully, a love of solar hopefully it will take place and don't worry about it there's plenty of solar to be installed over the years - (clapping.) it's not a limit you think of a

third renewable eventually we have to get to the level of energy and those types of source of energy we're not raising the green house gases we have a long way to go and while it's exciting to be with likes minded people it's well, to take a pause and realize that the take we're on now is not sustainable we have to make a turn and a shift anytime you're talking about an organism or political those shifts are not easy to make it's just as harden in california we have to adapt policies and get insights and build consensus so it's 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 that's our task going forward i noticed an e-mail california is the 8th largest economic jurisdiction in the world we've surplus italy and russia i don't know if there's italians here but i don't know if we should, commemorated or congratulated but make sure our economy is able to extract more and more value from less material and that's going to take a real genus and california really got going at the time of the gold

rush there were people here before that but they lived quietly and that's why they didn't screw up at the time of the gold rush it was the biggest slim lose when things got slow tell the world with a pick-and-shovel you'll get rich hundreds of thousands of people came to california and dry it was really a backwater and yet when gold came people from german and italy and russia all over the world and it then went to agriculture and oil and now high tech and internet and viacom and that's a viagra of the imagination even more

powerful than the mining of sierra's for the gold as we mine our imagines we have to intensity not only gadgets but keep our eye on the big goal and that's certainly to build is more equitable and justice society to all the creatures and ourselves over time that's why solar is important and along with all the ways that we can adjust how we and the generations that come after us can live in a way that humanity b will continue owe not designate this and that's some go to celebrate and congratulate ourselves it's daunting this is

a real mount everest to climb we haven't made the climb is sustainability let's take a renewed excitement and commitment from how far we've gotten with you not kid ourselves we have a much harder and itch more formable challenge ahead of us i join i with to do everything we possible can to make sure our economy and energy and all the ways we live together works now and for the indefinite future thank you and welcome to california. thank you (clapping) >> thank you so much. (clapping.)

thank you so much governor you're an inspiration for everyone in the room that had the pleasure to hear you what an admirable person that helps us and we're grateful that was possible with our tight schedule to come and set the conference on the right path thank you very much (clapping) now i have the pleasure to invite our host mayor edwin lee the mayor of san francisco and we're very glad we're here for the third time when he became the first asian-american mayor of san francisco this is an for coming and giving us your

greetings (clapping.) thank you, dr. weber it's hard to follow the governors i've lined to every wondering word but don't we have a great 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 it's a pleasure to welcome solar 2014 for a 7th year in a row that's great, thank you doctor weber we have developed a great partner with the solar company and it's stunning we haven't 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 that's 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 conference has

done and many of the people companies innovating models to make solar accessible to everyone. by the way, you to you know the solar companies comply many, many jobs and 50 thousand jobs in california and in the bay area 21 thousands of them solar green proud jobs that's pitting a lot of people back to work (clapping) and all of this and this great job growth this this sustainable industry has been done in the worse economic times of this country we're not only the economics are against us but the grid look in washington, d.c. was against us we've done this

in california and those achievements require a partnership and vision and thank goodness we've got governor jerry brown and the policies are reflected in a 3 that percent portfolio that's a goal worth achieving in san francisco i'm proud of our own state, in fact, in the last decade we've built out our energy resources we've installed 16 muni megawatts generating capacity and i'm proud of our municipal solar we put solar outstanding on our davies city hall that's the only one that is the greenest in the

world we've got 5 more large solar projects in the works and doing our partly to get the residents and businesses joining in that's why for the next 2 years i've invested $10 million in the goal solar san francisco that's our national program i'm very proud of it (clapping) and the go solar program is popular 3 thousand homes have been installed with solar with megawatts of clean energy. the success of the go solar energy not only generates energy i know your creating the best paying jobs and san franciscans who wouldn't be applied are being trapped we're reaching in and training them on the thing

they felt they had no connection to in the past we have an amazing 31 solar companies participated in go solar sf and our workforce development program insures those jobs will be there for everyone and thanks to the governor and his leadership i've started the case in san francisco. green finance sf (clapping) so homeowners can find affordability financing their, their renewable energy and in fact, i've had a moment to talk to the governor we're 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 that's thriving there's 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 we're creating a community that will be success whether it's financed or violationy or solar companies with this coop liz i'm 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 you're welcome here in san francisco (clapping) and with that, seven years dr. weber we're proud of this and the association e relationship we're proud of the achievements that this conference brings to the great minds let's go out through and demand they come up to the same standards and thank you for having our conference here (clapping.) thank you very much mayor ed lee i think none of us from the organization have ever heard a complaint about the north america is located here in san francisco the golden state so very, very nice this is a pleasure to a member of our

government back in germany who don't know baden back was one of the positive prosperous state is a little bit of similarity of the united states and bona fide lit even back in german a has a few years agreeing that the election at the last green party to everyone's surprise many police stations included with the social democratic party they're proud they've got a green dynamics of government it's a minor part and the primary minister from the green party i'm proud to introduce him into the government so thank you to be with us and we're looking forward to a greeting

(clapping.) thank you so much mayor ed lee and senator parker and ladies and gentlemen and others i'm delighted to be here and very grateful for this invitation to the opening of the 7 the intersolar north american i'm impressed by the viewing success story of solar energy and the use by which it is for the climate protection and i'll say i feel a particular affinity with the intersolar north american. the roots of this exhibition actually go back to the state ofileitis even burger

specifically where we have rooftop on the union with solar intelligence. 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 long-term 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 high-level 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 long-term the efficiency and the use of renewable energy may cost money in the short term but high investments will pay off in the long-term. our plans to extend the energy efficiency we're going to reduce the informs you will fuldz by 2020 and third by mitigating the climate change in order to limit the impact of climate change we must initiate steps to reduce

emissions. we therefore aim to cut emissions by the year 2020 and 90 percent by 2050 and fourth we're reducing the use of expansive use of making energy efficiency improvement to our buildings and spending the renewable empties and money will remain in our regional economy we're creating new jobs for example, in the trades and public are participation the government in my country in literally burger will include the energy politicians in actually protests like the

efficient cooperatives in wheat farms. ladies and gentlemen, in converting our power supply to renewable incurs we must fully exploit all energies with the power that will take in 2013, the renewable energies accounted for 23 percent of the degenerated pour inileitis even beggar we're going to increase that that by 2030. the bio energy is limited in our state we're mainly committed to extend the, however, power and we will have a huge scale that can generate megawatts in 2020

and 12 percent of the we go mats of electricity already installed in my country to achieve our tarts for 2024 that will have 8 hundred 8 hundred message watts. by the year 2050 the energy to provide 25 percent of anticipated electricity consumption i consider those targets as realistic because lundberg is in an excellent position to promote this. for example, the state of lundberg is home to two especially outstanding

institutions the brown in spite of solar energy systems and the center of solar energy and technology together with our strong mechanic engineering companies and with the aid of what it will take lundberg is in such a suburb position to play a leading roll in developing the energy supply of the future my confidence is based on the technology potential of what it takes by increasing efficiency and cutting the production costs with the energy power generation costs that compare to those of conference power plants. however, another fact in the success of what it takes would

be how intellectually we integrate them into our systems. the great advantage is the ability to cap loads around midday there's numerous technologies who could be used to store electricity from what it takes including in combination with other forms of power generations by looking at the program and the exhibit our list there's a lot of opportunity no north american to challenge information about those issues and in a way of interesting subject. i wish you ever success at the exhibition and thank you for

your attention (clapping.) >> thank you so much minister for your kind and encouraging words we're not only here opening the exhibition as well as the conference so we look forward to help developing the framework for the energy transformation which we need so much. we're going from california san francisco to the oovt of the united states the senator from the new york state he's a ranking member on the technology and i think has been a vigorous fighter for our justice cause

(clapping.) okay before everyone as we have a group of technical stiff going i need everybody - ready. i need everybody to smile in the the first (laughter) hi. now we've got the self i didn't see out of the way. i have no idea how to use the power point i'm going to press the bottoms. all right. good evening >> good evening. so if you weren't here i'm from brooklyn i want to call a word >> he have to say in response good evening friends. >> good evening. >> i cail you guys friends even though i've met which of you for the first time today i feel like

we share so much in common first those who are here deeply care about climate change and those who have the motivation to move forward in a road map we need to realize but second there was another great motivation speak by governor jerry brown give them a hand. it's speech was a call to action to the state legislators across the country when you heard it you should have said what about new york at least that's what i thought. as we talk about new york i hate to do this and with all due respect to our mayor ed lee who is a fast friend of mine i want

to submit my first objection to this being the first conference in san francisco i think brooklyn sighing show get a chance i am here to share chastises going on in new york and i think it really in solar in a way that i think it different how the confidence usually goes i want to come back but one the lessons that new york has learned from climate change and two the current state of the renewables in new york and the state where we go from here i want to start with the climate change been new york economy there's been i don't know why an idiotic debate

around climate change (clapping) why this is a debate i'll never know, you know, we don't talk about drowning polar bears but new york was hit with super short term sandy it was the largest and when it hit new jersey but spit despite it was the second most it's truthful storm in history trailing katrina sandy caused more than $68 billion in damage and it happened in new york state it happened in the real estate to our bridges and tunnels and roads all things were flooded with significant damage.

the energy infrastructure was seriously damaged being e merged in seawater. thank fully we've landowner a lot sandy's 14 foot storm surge we talk about this is a storm surge of 14 feet 2 feet higher than any in the history. that's why the electrical system was flooded and the brooklyn tunnel was flood and lower manhattan and queens were completely underwater we took away many, many lessons i have to give and the gentleman is going to be surprised i want to thank governor cuomo i said it