welcome i to the opening of our convention 2014 and this convention is carried by the person he is still trying to get the governor going both the room and co- organizer i want to welcome pat from the tv pod there. this conventions wouldn't have happened without our convention committee we have a convention and industrial committee 35 experts and they've done a fantastic job making the convention program possible bringing the colleagues to talk

and i think we've experienced some of the session i thought they were full to capacity so we're very impressed we've got the interest i want thank the supporters first our close partner we just announced two days ago filed a agreement with cal sea they're our local partner (clapping.) thank you. and another close partner is the american society for solar energy they have a convention and i might say those among you from a excess please tell them this is a wonderful opportunity

to bring the a assess members together to have a show and exhibition for all the members so i suggest it would be great to continue this great co- relation with a sea in the future. finally, i want to appreciate the alliance for for science their many others from other organizations that brings together the very exciting program which we have as a convention sponsor we want to welcome but now i don't want to spend any more time i see our governor jerry best graffiti watch volunteer award is in the room i want to celebrate his 40

years as governor (clappin (clappin (clappin (clapping) >> i've never been introduced that way it heathens my feeling of ab obsolescence (laughter) but i'll try to be as sustainable for as long as i can i look at 40 years this november actually but important importantly here we are in san francisco in california at this solar event with a strong heavier german influence i've been connecting with my

interdepression since my grandfather sampling came in here i was on mothers ancestral grand slam looking at gull lists and dry hard come 35kd soil thinking of ways to revitalize the way to save water and recharge the underground quarts and live with the other catches up that inhabit this special land. i'm feeling a a little bit distance from this urbanization since out in the country there's coyotes and swurlz and a hawk that made me think of late lent political opposition

(laughter) so, anyway i'll say i was around with california impacted a 55 percent tax for solar installations in 1975 and it was something for the space program up to the rooftop it was really solar thermal but in the decades that have come after it's amazing how the industry has advanced and the ordinary citizens have picked the sustainability of a real sense as we live and go about our lives and our work we have to take accountability for the long-term things. when you've been around for 40 years you have a sense that time is passing and we have to think about what our impact is and

that impact is real. the fact that people aren't around i can't envision years from now but we have a real impact to department the capacity and imagination not only this quarter or this year but the decades to come. and that's why even in cost benefit analysis they might say someone today their lives are worth several million and 50 millions several hundred thousand and one hundred and 50 its far reduced yet we're all 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 togh