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 he really, really jumped 0 into action and not only responded to the storm in a significant way but afterward looked at our energy infrastructure and made some critical changes to it but the bottom line is what happened it in new york at least we're

getting hundred year storms every two years; right? so we have to change with what's happening we have to understand this is not a debate and unless we do something about climate change we're going to drawn like the polar bears. (clapping.) thank you >> i think my mom's in the audience thanks mom. and it's not just storms we've also have dealt with over the last couple of years some of the warmest summers in fact, 2010 was the warmest on record willing in the history we've been keeping weather 2010 was the hottest but 2011, 2012 and

2013 were the hottest. we look at the 10 warmest summers on record have happened since 1998 this is according to the - yeah, that one administration you know the name better than i do i'm reading the not. and so, you know, this brings us to the point why we're here; right? because we're here not only because we're in the solar energy but a call to action; right? so solar like all renewable incurs is needed now. so we have to do a couple of things in terms of things we need to approve the ohio protective combrrpg and

aggressively set goals for green house gas emissions and our fossil fuels we need to use the blue print to have the keep that in mind system this is what new york has done eave created the model in which we've got to get washington, d.c. to do it we refer this to reggie we need to increase the reliance in terms of of the reliability to enable us to suffer less in heat weather and unless we do that this is upon us now. there are a number of things you you know, i can go on and on about but let me talk about this here we go. we have a very complicated

market for renewal energy in new york we have thirty level credits and initiatives for installing this and most is not applicable to solar but i'll semiapplying if i this new york has a thirty percent state renewable energy by 2015 but the state of new york has rolled out new york sun again, you might have heard my good friend but you'll call him david sun bank if you like i'm going off the cuff here. this is the new york public utilities commission with the development authority the

flagship of alternative energy authority in the state of new york to fund 3 thousand megawatts of energy throughout 20023 and the climbing block to build capacity this is something we've fought very, very hard for if the state of n.y. new york it's going to be revolutionary but for all people. and we have a bill that actually, i'm the sponsor of surprise, surprise it's a bill 752 of this increases the renewable portfolio standards to percent of renewable energy by 2050 (clapping) you can keep clapping if i like

thank you, thank you, thank you. no, this is - as i indicated when i spoke earlier this is a fight those biggest don't just happen i introduce them and because it's wonderful and they step arrested it through i'm going to need people to call on the governor and the state legislator to pass this legislation this is the kind of work we're going to do beyond the nights and bolts of building solar we have to build the political will to make this happen related to know we're reforming the energy vision we need to update the grid on