electricity from natural gas. and that's the second scenario we look at. and then we look at a scenario of developing oil and gas resources that exist within the state. i mention in the paper we have estimates in there of the amount of oil that -- and natural gas in california is quite conservative. it's about 10 billion barrels of oil in the ground in california that could be produced. and then we compare these scenarios on the following by comparing the following metrics. we look at the level and composition of energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, employment, value added, and tax revenues. our framework is basically we estimate a forecasting model of energy demand in california. and so we actually the next slide gives you an overview of that. you can see the three rectangles in the center on the orange box is household demand for fuel. so we have models describing how consumers adjust the prices, income, and also most importantly efficiency trends in the market. appliances and standards are changing ove

it reduces all of the cost of maintenance of electricity and ensures electricity. if you're tied to the grid, the grid is always standing there ready to serve you during the day it's charging a lot of power. my kids are at school, my wife and i are at work. there is not much going on. it's feeding my refrigerator or whatever. so most of my power is excess and being sent back into the grid. my meter is spinning backwards and banking credits to my account. when i come home at night, then i'm buying back electricity from the utility, drawing off my "virtual battery" in a sense. think of it as an economic transaction. you sell back during the day and buy at night. and that's how it works. hi, i'm here with carl, he is the operations manager for solar city. we decided to take a little break from the cls room to so we could see some of the solar panels in action. carl, how are you? >> very well. nice to meet you. >> how do you like the weather? >> not too bad. >> kind of sunny. how does that impact our solar panels when we have lots of sun versus fog which we are typical

that it actually does produce electricity for nonhydroelectric renewables fell from 57% to less than 34% just a couple of years ago. again because we have to use sites that are increasingly unfavorable. for conventional power plants capacity factors are in the range of 85% to 90%. because of siting constraints, transmission costs are almost certain to be higher for renewable power, the literalture, the technical engineering literature is unanimous on this. if you look at the cost estimates from the energy information administration, transmission costs per megawatt hour are $3.60 for coal and gas plants, about $3 for nuclear plants, now the intermittency problem emerges because the wind doesn't lways blow and the sun doesn' renewable plants cannot be scheduled or dispatched in the terminology of the industry and instead we have to have backup generation in case the wind farms and the solar plants aren't producing on a given day in order to preserve the stability of the grid and prevent brown outs and atackup almost always conventional, coal, gas, and nuclear. how much backup is needed

electric vehicles can use the car pool lane and auto makers have agreed to a standard electric plug. >> people don't have to think about do i need to go to that charger or this charger. all of the chargers will be able to charge the vehicles that are out there. >> reporter: that and rising fuel charges have generated a spike in interest. most electric vehicles retail for more than $30,000. so potential customers want to know how easy it'll be to charge. >> their number one, number two things is how far will it go. what's the range. and number two is if i need power where am i going to get it. dr.harvard now owns a hybrid. he says he wants to buy an electric vehicle but has held back. >> i think the quality of the car is up now. within the next let's say two years i think there's going to be a car that i want to buy that's all electric but i want to plug it in some where. >> reporter: that's what may be holding people back. brad burman owns a leaf. he also tests electric vehicle as part of his job as editor for plug in cars.com. berman says unlike a gas powered vehicle. electric vehic

but now the family has electricity all day. >> because we have 24 hours' electricity, we can get up early and get things done earlier. because there are lights in the house and on the roads. that has changed our lives, we have more time and can relax in the evening. >> as more rural areas are connected to the main grid, sri lanka's energy needs will continue to increase. that's why plans are underway to build more mini-hydroelectric plants. right now, there are a hundred in operation -- soon, it's hoped, there will be a hundred more. >> and that's all we have time for on this editoin of global 3000. thanks for watching and don't forget to tune in the same time next week. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

we failed in using electricity cars to cool down units. >> o'brien: unable to restore electricity, the fukushima complex then suffered breakdown after breakdown. (explosions) >> a blast was heard, smoke rising from reactor number one... (speaking german) >> o'brien: over the next few days, the reports grew more alarming: explosions at three reactors, radioactive contamination spewing into the environment. rescue forces rushed to the scene. helicopters, fire fighters, and police with water cannons desperately tried to keep the hot radioactive fuel rods covered with water. on march 15, four days into the crisis, the prime minister at the time, naoto kan, addressed the nation. >> (translated): please listen to my message calmly. the emergency diesel engines thathoulhaveeen used t cool down the reactors have all gone out of function. radiation has spread from these reactors and the reading of the level seems very high. we need now for everybody to move out of the 20 kilometer radius from the number one plant, and in areas from 20 to 30 kilometers, we would like to ask you to remain indoors

how did you get into electricity?lawyer and i believe you were a railroad lawyer. >> railroad dened utilities and when i got out of law school in 1970, i wanted to go to a big city and chicago was closer to my relatives in wisconsin. i thought i wanted to go into management sunday. it seems that going to a law firm that represented regulated industries was a way to make that a possibility so i made that choice. i did a particularly bad job on an early memorandum and was assigned to work on nuclear plants as a punishment. it happened i did a better job on that. i did that for most of seven years and then i did a railroad bankruptcy for three years and went to conrail as general counsel. it was the usual mix of planning and serendipity that goes into most careers. >> you became chief executive at central maine and new england electric and then the big one, which who made much bigger, exelon. it combines the old commonwealth edison with the old pennsylvania electric and most recently in maryland where we have many viewer

the group wanted to change their town's only source of electricity that is tokyo electric power company, the operator of the fukushima plant. the group made a proposal demanding the town use other providers for public facilities. last december the assembly announced the idea that the town have competitive bidding starting next year. >> translator: i want this town to start making changes where it can. >> translator: the only way to make change is to start with ourselves. with what each individual can do. >> reporter: at the same time, a grassroots movement has emerged seeking government policy that reflects the citizens' views. the group of about 100 women gathered in tokyo last month to debate energy policy issues. >> translator: i'd like to choose my electric company. different companies should handle electricity production and transmission. >> reporter: they wrote down what they consider the key words and inside in energy policy. these are future, local self-sufficiency, the freedom to choose one's energy resources and life. >> translator: this meeting reminded me that i have to expr

we'll look at electric cars and just what can be done to make these >>> the push to go electric most major auto makers have promised to have an electric vehicle or hybrid for 2013, the question is where will we plug those cars. >> reporter: people are adopting them at a faster rate than hybrids when they were new. the first year of sales for the leaf, some 10,000 were purchased in the bay area alone. that doubled the first year of prius sales. helping drivers take the plunge. electric vehicles can use the car pool lane and auto makers have agreed to a standard electric plug. >> people don't have to think about do i need to go to that charger or this charger. all of the chargers will be able to charge the vehicles that are out there. >> reporter: that and rising fuel charges have generated a spike in interest. most electric vehicles retail for more than $30,000. so potential customers want to know how easy it'll be to charge. >> their number one, number two things is how far will it go. what's the range. and number two is if i need power where am i going to get it. dr.harvard now owns

so you're buying electricity where it's inexpensive. you decrease your electricity bill. the asset of generation are used, you know, getting better return on your investment, because you're using the asset in a more even way. and so the good news is, so this all is about energy efficiency, essentially. and so combined heat and power in any city, any university, any hospital that has an integration of steam and chilled water tunnels, or a big complex, could use combined heat and power. and we'd love to see it go in that direction, because now you're going to 80% efficiency. >> thank you. >> senator portman? >> thank you, mr. chairman, and dr. chu, thank you for being before the committee again and for working with me and other members ev of the committee on important projects of things in the budget. one is energy efficiency as senator shaheen just talked about and with buildings using about 40% of the energy in this country, what you're talking about there is consistent with legislation which as you may now was introduced in the house, a companion bill yesterday. we're ho

you don't want the electricity. i was visiting a project we supported in recovery act funds in houston, texas. it powers this collection of medical centers that is about the 12th largest city in the united states, just the medical centers. everything's big in texas. and anyway, what they had is they had a very efficient gas generator, but single cycle. they had high temperature processed heat that could be used for heating or air conditioning. now, the beauty of what they did is they took that processed heat and they used it. you can actually use heat to cool. and so they used it to chill water. and they restore this cold water in this big tank right there. and they found that it took about -- less than 10% of the energy, even on a hot houston summer day, to keep that tank cold. and so they would run it so that that would balance. it's like a big battery. it's a battery of heat that they would use to air condition their complex. okay? so it was very cost-effective. so they were operating this plant at 80% efficiency

why they are saying there are electrical inspectors is because they will work out of the electrical division and will not work out of the over-the- counter fifth floor division. they will be assigned upstairs, just as the engineers are assigned upstairs and the clerks are assigned upstairs. the clerks we are getting will be trained on the first floor and will be available for the fifth floor if the fifth floor does not have enough clerks to service the public that is coming in. same thing with the engineers and the electrical inspectors. the problem being now we have to check plans for solar. we have to check the mechanical plans and the gray water for the plumbing. everything that has been put in the codes, they have been planned checking on the third floor right now without any revenue. that is why they are going up to the fifth floor, and we are going to track it. if we find that it is not if we find that it is not speeding up the process as it is

we have to have electrical come in. we had to have the department of building repair come in and put in electrical plugs. this takes time. when you are working through the dpw for contracts. everything after the system was actually bought, the actual equipment did not come in for two or three years, so we are going to try. it is the newest version of the system. maybe it will work, maybe it will not, but the demands of san francisco plan checking is different than most cities, it might not work here. if it does not work, we will pull it. we are not going to let the public wait longer to get permits, and we are going to be monitoring this, and we have ways to monitor how long we can take from the start to the finish of a permit, rather than someone going to a clipboard, having our plan checkers go up, grab a clipboard, calling their name, and going back to the seat. that takes time, too. it is less time to push a button and call them up from a number. and the system will automatically circle people through the plan check

although you'll be seeing a lot of electric lines, iin some communities there is still no access to electricity because it is expensive to connect to the grid. >> this village nestling by the side of the road is home to the mangyan -- the island's indigenous people. julius alip wants to introduce the concept of solar lamps to the mangyan. robin adaba says they've never had electricity. he harvests and sells wild bananas for a living. he's using the fading light to cook sweet potatoes for dinner. >> i dream of having electricity. we're very poor. we live hand to mouth. >> the solar lamps that julius alip is promoting are specifically designed to meet the needs of poor villagers. after they're charged, the lamps can provide up to 5 more hours of light. they cost the equivalent of 20 euros -- and customers can pay that off in monthly installments. but the lamps are still too expensive for the mangyan villagers. >> 1000 pesos? i can only afford that if i sell a lot of bananas. maybe in a month. >> julius sits down with the villagers to talk about how they might be able to finance the lamps in the f

. >>> a community in san francisco is going electric on two wheels. ktvu's john fowler is live with the new way to get around town. john? >> reporter: a bicycle is a great way to get around san francisco. i am on one of the steepest hills in the city. and i can pedal up it with no problem at all. very easy because the bicycle has an electric motor that does most of the work. san francisco is poised to be the first city in the country to offer electric bike shared. >> reporter: driving and parking in san francisco seems to be getting worse. >> i always walk whenever i can't. always traffic congestion. >> reporter: bicycles can park anywhere but there are those hills. these folks pedal up 1 of the steeper grades. never broke a sweat. >> you are not huffing and puffing. you feel like you made it. >> reporter: they cost a couple thousand dollars. why not just borrow one? >> reporter: the folks who run the city car share program are getting a federal grant to operate 90 electric bikes. it is designed to show case even greener vehicles. >> i am a big advoca

i am sure you have done that with electrical and plumbing. have you done that with the people on the fifth floor/ ? that is directed at the director. >> yes, the executive team does come in, and it except the actiy director did come in and put in his wish list. on that list there were no engineers. i am the one that added the engineers for the positions that were asked for right now, and i added an engineer to technical services as you see. the problem is right now with the list on the engineers that they have to go through another testing because they expired the previous list, and we have requisitions and four engineers that are not filled. they cannot be filled until the interview and it passed by -- until they are approved by the mayor's budget. but we will be filling positions in the engineering department this year, and then we are adding it next year. so we do have the right to come back for a supplemental in january if we want to, or we can put -- we can add money to the budget and ask for more decisions if you think we're being too c

it's green energy for electricity and energy for your plants. >> our electricity bill is about 40-thousandus dollars per month. this electricity is mainly used for ventilators, for pumps, for cooling systems. and in heating, we spend about 400,000 dollars in oil per year. we will definitely save money. but it's important for us to produce in a cleaner and more sustainable way. it's not only about money. >> they also hope to be a role model for other companies in the region. hot springs are abundant in central america. and that means there's an abundance of green energy, just waiting for someone to tap into it. >> and that's all we have time for on this edition of global 3000. thanks for watching and don't forget to tune in again in seven days' time. but for now from me and the entire global team here in our berlin studios: thanks for watching! captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

president obama set the goal of one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. despite the strong encouragement of the technology, there was a fundamental knowledge about how to handle an electric vehicle after it's been involved in a crash. get the engineers to drain the charge from the battery creating a hazardous situation that led to the explosion. it appears that this lack of knowledge was caused by a lack of preparation. according to documents, in september 2011. this strongly suggests that the agency did not pay close attention to the unique safety concerns -- excuse me. safety risks associated with the battery technologies in cars before the volt fire occurred. and the risk associated with these vehicles should be addressed. i look forward to hearing the testimony of mr. strict land and i hope that he's more forthcoming today than he was when he was last before us. and with that i now yield to my ranking member mr. kucinich from ohio. >> thank you for being here and i appreciate the opportunity to work with you. today we again welcome david strict land,

electrical. there's an electrical repulsion between you and the seat you sit on. and when you walk along the floor, there's an electrical repulsion that keeps you from oozing right down into the floor. these charges repel each other. in fact, at the atomic level we talk about touch. i'm touching the table, but get right down into the realm of the atoms, what's going on? where's the touch? there's an electron banging into an electron? it turns out they get closer and they get squashed. the electron, that atom gets squashed up a little bit, and the atom in the hand gets squashed up and there's an enormous repulsion and you look how you, you make that whole thing vibrate. can you guys hear anything? listen. you know what you're doing? i made those sounds... and the atoms of the air... all the way to here. we'll be talking about sound later, huh? physics, okay. but you make vibrations, you make the atoms vibrate. that's what you're doing. you know the notion of touch is sort of like a lot different than the microscopic levels, at the atomic submicroscopic level, i sho

we'll have electric cars. >> dana: where are we going to get electricity?efully nuclear power. >> isn't that distribution of up the chain instead of down the chain? >> andrea: it's a gamble if we don't have the electric toy to spend $10,000 of taxpayers money on the cars. if the cars were so great the market would sustain itself. we wouldn't need to offer the tax cuts. why doesn't obama drive one, a bulletproof, presidential volt? >> bob: the cost to produce gal, the electricity to the gasoline to be replaced by an electric car would be equal, if not less. maybe you don't have electric problems but you can't keep going. this is a one-time deal. it takes time. >> dana: a better investment, one thing in the budget is the d.c. opportunity scholarship fund. it's $8,000 per student which allows families of low-income, not very many, lower than the average to get children to allow them to go through a better school through avoucher system. the unions hate the program. i know that my former neighbors on capitol hill use the program to make sure their kids had a be

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there were electrical code violations. there was exposed electrical power. power demand exceeded circuit capacity because of the wiring. i think this was a high-tech incubator, assembly. it was a very creative occupancy. they were doing creative things in order to be there. the electrical code violations included electrical panels that had exposed supply. the panels did not have the panel covers. the doors were not attached. it was a life-safety hazard in many different ways. part of our project, now we're getting into the code complete occupancy studies. the work we've done since september, we had to open up existing construction to validate the construction to see if things complied or not. we identified locations that we wanted to have opened up. port maintenance people went in there and exposed the existing construction so we could record high it was built and what we found. we looked at wall and floor assembly and construction and assembly. >> some things we found we open up the wall assembly validated the concern to have the building closed. areas wher

then that the manufacturing of the volt puts america, essentially on the map with respect to the electric vehicles; is that right? >> the derivatives are going into many of the cars, and, for example, the buick lacrosse, with e-assist, jumps to 30 miles a gallon. we have impacts of exploring technologies and deploying them in the real world ring yes. >> and so the manufacturing of the volt, then, moves america towards clean and first efficiet technologies, not just used in the volt, but other cars to help them become more fuel efficient; correct? >> yes, sir. >> and that, in turn, i might add, has a lot to do with saving jobs in this economy. how many jobs has gm added to the automanufacturing sector to build the parts for the scroll -- volt? >> one plant outside detroit is dedicated just to the volt production. they put out about 400 every couple days, and they are a couple thousand employees there. i would also say since we've emerged from bankruptcy, we've invested over $5 billion in foreclosure in the country hiring just short of 16,000 additional -- >> $5 billion for the services of?

that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where does this end up? on the floor. it gets mixed together and becomes a hazardous soup and it's usually slippery. safeway, what do you think they have in there, kids? we will show you. bleach. okay. bleach is great i

electr electrification is great. we've had some pretty spectacular breaktl dbreakthrou that was announced yesterday, that at least looks like it will decrease these barriers maybe twofold. continuing again to diversify the transportation fuel. so these are the things we're doing, and we're very focused on that because we understand the economic impacts it has on all americans and our economy. >> but is the overall goal to get our price? >> no, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy and to decrease our dependency on oil. for the first time in the last eight years through a lot of policy, this previous administration, you know, our oil production has increased for the first time. it's at the highest level in eight years. it's the import. the fracture level is at it highest in 18 years. we think if you include all these policies, including air efficiency, we think we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and diversifying our supply and it will help the am

parameters in the computer that can sense lie oil pressure, security the engine down so that an electric fuel pump like a conventional one might keep pumping if a car had crashed our engine had blown. not any more. it won't happen. >> darrell: one of the best things we done going to fuel injection and all that goes with it.

who have never had electricity before. and a lot of that electricity was coal-fired electricity. at the same time, china, in particular, has been wrestling with growing pollution in its cities from these coal-fired power plants. and as a result, china is eagerly looking for alternatives. they are looking at renewables. and they are looking at natural gas. but like in any country, a lot of the decisions that are taken in china on power are taken on economic basis, and coal has been a cheap competitor. and has -- and that is why it has grown so rapidly. whether or not that will continue in the future is another question, especially now that china has aggressively decided to markedly expand their use of natural gas. but i do think th, and our projections show, that coal has a bright future as well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you and thank you to all of our witnesses for being here this morning. i think every one of you in your comments and projections talked about demand and how that's affecting energy projections for the future. you may be aware that s

>> two to the building, to do we go to an electrical and two to plumbing? >> yes. we're having an electrical and plumbing move up to the fifth floor so the review can be done there. we are more consistent with what is required by the code in state law, and then we are putting more people in the community and the various districts because we're seeing more activity, and we want to make sure we do not have a backlog. seniors are going out. there is a lot of activity. and we were just commenting about the number of people that come to the third floor as soon as they can get into the building at 8:00. we're seeing quite an uptick. plus, we know there are a lot of high rise. high-rise inspections take time. you want to make sure you are not cutting the homeowner on sunset off verses the high-rise. >> ok. the reason why i asked that is if we're adding six inspectors, and i posed this question last time above the department services, if we are adding six inspections -- your answer is we are adding two new engineers and another. that mentions the three permanent people. do

and e., a gas portion and an electric portion cleared marked. look at the electric portion. you'll get a usage area and a box at the end. it will break down like this. it says five rate tiers you call them. you get a baseline rate at a cheap amount. you get another 30% amount at a cheap rate. this is your baseline rates, these two. but when you use more, you pay more. and what it looks like graphically is, boy, there is a lot up here. so these rates are where your big expenses come. if you're in these rates, solar can make a lot of sense. they go up very dramatically, 222 cents, 32. let's say we have a case study. you have a $100 electric only. that's $1,200 a year. after 10 years, it's $12,000 if rates don't rise. let's assume that rates rise at the historical average which has been 6% over the past 30 years. so let's assume -- i think that might be conservative, let's assume that. so that means that after 10 years, you'll probably have paid out $16,000 and your bill by then will be $169, $170 amonth. you would be out that much money and you would have a higher bill and loo

electrical systems.nob and tube systems which are common in san francisco in older buildings don't have to be replaced. you don't have to upgrade the system because it's older wiring. it's safe and may be extended as necessary to serve new fixtures. that's in the historic building code and regular electrical code. you can often find the wonderful fixtures in salvage yards. >> you have comments? there are a couple of shops you can take this to them and they will rewire it with modern wiring. sometimes, because we have combination gas and electric fixtures they rewire the old gas fixtures as well. there are resources availables to getting them fixed up. >> this one needs more than rewiring but. [laughter]. >> you can get all of the bits and pieces for the fixtures these days on the internet and salva salvage yards. terrific place on sacramento street that has a tremendous collection of historic glass and chandeliers. >> it's over in laurel heights wood chuck antiques. there is victor's antique light nothin

sometimes when the wind is blowing, there is nowhere to take that electricity. you can put that into lots of kinds of storage. either hydro storage is something i've been pushing very hard, the bpa to start doing, pump from one dam to another dam so it has minimal, essentially no environmental impact, but it is a form of storage. and we have a target. we know that energy stores at the megawatt and the megawatt hour scale would have incredible applications in the electricity distribution system. it would make our electricity distribution system much more efficient, because all the little ripples. you have a few major generating stations. it goes to distribute out here. you purposely overfill today. and if you had little batteries of, you know, kind of that size scale popped here and there, it would have a profound difference. right now the energy storage is about $300, $350 a kilowatt hour. at $100, $150 a kilowatt hour, it goes viral. and so energy storage for reniables, energy storage for making more efficient distribution system, energy storages for a sounder,

general electric is a great example of that. because we can compete. as a governor four different times when i was governor, we had companies close plants in mexico and move the work to mississippi. and we'd do that all over the united states. before getting into that too deeply, i do want to comment on what a great partner general electric is. jeff is very generous to say our state is a good partner. we'd like to think we are. but it's easy to be a good partner when you have a great partner like general electric. they have a couple of facilities in my state, one of which when it was announced, i think those of you who recognize mississippi's image and i understand that mississippi has suffered with a negative image most of my life, but they decided to open this plant in mississippi, general electric, for th