he shared a longer showed a commitment to energy security and understands the importance of us energy exports to lower greenhouse gas emissions abroad. committed to innovation to be at the forefront of groundbreaking technologies serving as the assistant secretary of intergovernmental affairs department of energy under george w. bush staff director for energyy commerce committee and member of the louisiana state energy board bringing a wealth of knowledge and unique perspectiveun ideally suited for the job i urge his confirmation and look forward to his role. >> welcome to the energy committee senator crew. >> i'm very glad to be here members of the committee it is my privilege too help introduce dan brouillette to the committee with apologies to my friend - - friends from louisiana. texas claims him maybe we don't have to resolve that this morning many of you know he is a dedicated advocate to american energy if you don't know him well i can tell you he is eminently qualified and will do an exceptional job as a nest secretary department of energy. serving both our country and united

for those of us in the energy business and the energy industry if you will, energy policy industry, we see the arctic as a not only a resource for things like critical minerals and potentially environmentally sensitive energy development. we see it for the purpose of not just extracting, you know, oil and gas. i think it's expanded beyond that, much, much further than we could have imagined. what i mean by that is as we move to a world of more and more renewable energy, our ability to develop battery storage becomes more and more critical. and the mip rals that we currently receive today or rely upon for the development of those types of batteries, we've become dependent upon nation states who quite candidly do not have our interests at heart. and the arctic is potentially a resource for those types of minerals. i will tell you from where i sit at the u.s. department of energy, what you can expect from us is attendance at events like the upcoming 2020 geothermal congress in iceland. we will have a strong and rebust presence. doe will also help lead. this may sound a little bit counteri

energy offsets.eat tools for transition for us but we thought wouldn't it be cool what we call additionality, additional energy on the grid? we love to, whenever possible, displace dirty energy, browner sources of power like fossil fuel generation. >> reporter: is there a lot of pushback only the comply chain or do you have a dominant position in this segment of the market they'll follow suit if you set the example? >> i think one of the surprising things for me, at least, was how eager the supply chain is to embrace the idea of clean energy. what they don't have is know-how. a lot of what we bring to them is, you know, know-how. we've done it. we can show them how to do it in their kicountry. we'll be alongside them and sometimes are investing alongside them. >> reporter: can design and innovation be compatible with renewable energy? >> our approach at apple bring the same level of innovation and engineering and design to the clean energy journey as we do to our products. recycling rare earth elemen

energy. he currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. so we welcome you back to the committee. it's good to have discussion with you last week. i want to thank you -- really want to thank you for all you've done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. we've got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. mr. deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. so we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. so senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. we do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. hopefully the introductions do not consume our full

and clean energy. that is why the 2050 timeline and why there is the time frames because -- for the time the rules and regulations and safeguards get put in place, it will take a decade to actually begin shifting how we produce energy away from fossil fuels. one thing that nick has been tax won't workn because we don't have a global agreement. then he says we don't have a global agreement because countries couldn't agree, therefore we can't do a carbon tax or any type of regulation. this has been the roundabout that many folks have been saying from the conservative movement is that we can't act because nobody is acting. we have a climate crisis right now. it is showing up across the united states and across the world and to me, leadership means that the united states has to, the federal and state governments and we have 25 governors who pledged to stay in the paris agreement or abide by the emission targets. you have companies signing up that have trillions of dollars of assets like walmart, saying the

energy demand is also on the rise. a bit as well and that's a business turning up the hate climate change is already hurting several countries in africa. especially zambia the country is facing its worst drought in years but the lack of rainfall has also affected its capacity to produce electricity by june this year water levels down the world's biggest manmade reservoir with down to a 3rd of what it was last year that forced the zambian government to implement some drastic measures since october zambians have been putting up with 15 hours of rolling blackouts a day to try to conserve whatever energy can be produced for the mining sector and while that could help protect the main source of exports the power cuts are hurting the productivity of workers the majority of zambians work in the informal sector. well to talk about that my colleague is he a chip on the chin beta. is loads of. loads and loads of load shedding rolling blackouts full ordinary energy consumers what else is the government doing to try to solve this

on the input of other crs colleagues who cover onshore energy and broader energy policy issues. i will discuss each bill in turn. as a 2418 would make changes to offshore oil and gas revenue-sharing in the gulf of mexico and alaska title one would amend the gulf of mexico energy security act which governs offshore revenue-sharing with four golf producing states, alabama, louisiana, mississippi and texas and with the state grants program of the land and water conservation fund. the bill would provide for a higher portion of the revenues to be shared with the state. it would do this first by expanding the set of leases eligible for revenue-sharing and though it currently applies only to leases entered the law's enactment in december 2006. this includes approximately 60% of active leases in the golf but many of these new releases are not producing and the bill would broaden the qualified leases to include those entered into since october 2000. second the bill would increase the percentage of qualified revenue shared with the state. currently states get 37.5% of the revenues while 1

sector where you are seeing fossil energy companies becoming huge investors in the clean energy space. not led by americans, led by europeans. i think there are viewing this debate in the primary as too early to take seriously, and we'll see what happens later. it will be a heavy dose of skepticism on whether or not these goals are actually attainable. therefore, let's wait and see and some of this is going to happen, most of this is not going to happen and in the meantime, i need to diversify my portfolio. i think they care more about where shareholder pressure is coming rather than where the political landscape in the primary is. >> i will move on to sarah. you have seen trillions of dollars in federal state and private spending. what do you think about the spending levels envisioned in these plans, and what can we do with the federal >> first of all, i would like to thank randy for having me here today. i've been to a lot of these events. this is my first time speaking. i'm very excited. in terms of the numbers, i would echo what christie said. there is not a lot of specifics did m

it's time to tackle africa's persistent electricity crisis says a report by the international energy agency adding that africa's young fast growing and increasingly urban population is key to driving global energy needs. we also meet the father of rural innovation taking a look at his innovation up in tanzania where he and his fellow inventors work on improving life. shall i want to jones welcome to business africa and africa needs to scale up its policy and investment plans if it wants to overcome the persistent lack of access to electricity and clean coking and that's the bottom line of a new report by the international energy agency around half of all africans did not have access to electricity in 2018 and as africa's population grows well so is demand for energy africa is the world's most sun rich continent but despite possessing such huge solar energy potential the continent has less than one percent of global installed capacity around 5 gigawatts the international energy agency says to provide everyone with solar energy africa would need to add 3 times that every year until 204

fossil energy companies becoming huge investors in the clean energy sector. that is not led by the americans, by europeans. they are viewing this debate in the primary to early to take seriously. we will see what happens later. heavy dose of skepticism if these goals are actually attainable and let's wait and see and some of this is going to happen, most of this is not going to happen. saying id with just care more where shareholder pressure is coming rather than the political landscape in the democratic primary. >> i'm going to move on to sarah. .ou have seen the numbers we are talking about trillions of dollars in spending. do to thecan we federal purse to encourage these transitions? >> first of all, i would like to thank randy for having me here today. this is my first time speaking. i'm very excited. numbers, i would echo what christie said. specificsot a lot of did many of the plans. it's a stab in the dark. it's concerning to see these plans that are written as though they were written by no one involved in the process. they have never sat around the k

this is a possibility for supplying large volumes of liquid energy carriers or gaseous energy carriers you need to go right susteren if that works then in the long term climate friendly hydrogen could flow through the nord stream to pipeline from russia instead of natural gas but even though that could make the project more climate friendly the political squabbles look set to continue. and that's the situation in germany and central europe but what about the bigger picture is the world economy ready for the big change a hit one economist says no jeremy rifkin predicts the collapse will be brutal and that it will come sooner than we expect he says it will happen i mean 9 years from now 20 years ago rifkin correctly predicted the digital revolution that we are now experiencing so i'd say he's a man worth listening to our correspondent did just that when he sat down with risk in their washington. most of the cars on the streets run on gasoline and it doesn't matter where you look our society depends on fossil energy the question is for how much longer is this sustainable now this book her

input of other colleagues who cover onshore energy and broader energy policy issues. i will discuss each bill in turn. f-2418 would make changes to offshore oil and gas revenue sharing in the gulf of mexico and alaska. title number one would amend the gulf of mexico energy security act, governing revenue-sharing with four producing states, and with a state grant program from the land and water conservation fund. the bill would provide for a higher portion of revenues to be shared with the state. it would do this first by expanding the set of leases eligible for revenue-sharing. it currently applies only to the leases entered into since 2006. affecting approximately 50% of the active leases. it will include those entered into since october of 2000. the bill would increase the percentage of qualified revenues shared with the states. 12. 5 percent are shared with the lw kiev programs. the remaining lwcf programs. it would change this so that 50% would be shared with the states and 37. 5% would go to the treasury. the 12 points 5% for the 12. 5% would remain the same. cap

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energy? there's a variety of environmental justice definitions but these are a few useful guideposts. in particular to highlight the last two, ensuring reliable source of electricity and protecting low-income households and providing equitable distribution of and access to the real benefits associated with building, operating and maintaining our electric power. now cleanpowersf has a equity working group and they presented to you before and as part of this process i have been in regular communication with them and thus far i have seen every indication that their work will provide a useful and a positive framework to advance equity for their work. it's also critical when we're thinking about equity to think about past burdens. there are two in particular that i'd like to highlight. the first, and the most obvious being is the no defunct power plant at the end of evans avenue. and it's pictured above. and now mostly demolished. and the second located off illinois and 23rd. now both of those pla

and clean energies. we have to start now and that's 2050 timeline. by the time you start acting and the time the market incentives, the rules and regulations and safeguards get put in place, it could take a decade to actually begin shifting how we produce energy away from fossil fuels. i will point out one thing that nick has been saying. nick has been saying a carbon tax won't work because we don't have a global agreement. then he says we do not have a global agreement because countries couldn't agree, so therefore we can't do a carbon tax or regulation. this is been the kind of roundabout that many folks have been saying from the conservative movement is that we can't act because nobody is acting. we have a climate crisis right now, it is showing up across the united states, the world. to me leadership means that , the united states has to, the federal government and state government, we have 25 governors that of pledge to stay in the paris agreement or abide by the emission targets, you've got compani

and we live in a bountiful era of tremendously cheap energy are energy that's cheaper per unit than has ever existed in history before and that messes with us as a society to it leads to consumerism and and short term thinking in a lot of ways and an addiction to that cheap energy that's really hard to break off as we consider things like the oil industry and climate change and so on so i so they figured it would bring him into more of a philosophical question so you do have on a relative basis cheap energy the density of petroleum is very high as compared to other forms of energy from history you know for whale oil and going back you know before the coal and these type of things and so that cost for b.t.u. drops precipitously and but it has led to this over consumption and then my product being this ecological disaster in the plastics and the ocean that's incredibly cheap cheap cheap this of oil essentially how cheap it really is and a lack of investment in new alternative and even more dense energy sources like nuclear fusion nuclear fusion isn't a pipe dream and it's always a jok

i pay the energy bill. so there's really no incentive for my landlord to actually pursue the single point of contact or any of these incentives or spending any money at all because i pay the bill. so i wanted to just highlight that i don't think that really any discussions that i hear at the district or in the city around energy efficiency really look at the actual way that the economic incentives are laid out for folks. none of this is going to accomplish anything except for folks in san francisco or maybe out in the outer richmond or sunset where they own their homes. as far as the solar plus storage, we're regional organization with lots of folks in the north bay and, you know, they are taking this seriously in a much more intense way than we are because of both the fire impact and the power shutoff impacts they've had. i would say with the utility negligence and malfeesance and the criminality in the last few years as well as the incompetence with respect to the power shutoffs the city needs to move tow

where you're seeing fossil energy companies becoming huge investors in the clean energy space. not -- not led by the americans, by european fossil energy companies. think that they're viewing this debate in the primary as too early to really take seriously. and to see what happens later. and with a heavy dose of skepticism of whether or not these goals are actually achievable or attainable and, therefore, let's wait and see and none of this is -- some of this is going to happen, most of this is not going to happen, in the meantime, i need to diversify my portfolio. they care more about where shareholder pressure is coming rather than where the political landscape in the democratic primary is. >> all right. i'm going to move on to sarah here. you've seen the numbers for democratic candidates' climate pledges. talking trillions of dollars in federal, state and private spending. what do you think of federal spending levels envisioned in the plans, what more can we do through the federal purse to address climate change? >> first of all, i'd like to thank randy and the atlantic coun

input of other colleagues who cover onshore energy and broader energy policy issues. i will discuss each bill in turn . 2418 would make changes to offshore oil and gas revenue sharing in the gulf of mexico and alaska. title number one would amend the gulf of mexico energy security act, governing revenue-sharing with four producing states, and with a state grant program from the land and water conservation fund. the bill would provide for a higher portion of revenues to be shared with the state. it would do this first by expanding the set of leases eligible for revenue-sharing. it currently applies only to the 2006. entered into since affecting approximately 50% of the active leases. it will include those entered .nto since october of 2000 the bill would increase the qualified revenues shared with the states. 12.5 percent are shared with the lw kiev programs. programs.ing --lwcf it would change this so that 50% would be shared with the states and 37.5% would go to the treasury. the --points 5% for 12.5% would remain the same. cap annually for most years -- cap annually

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this has been the falling cost of clean energy. this is the cost of building and operating a new gas plant. this is the cost of operating an existing gas plant. so we are now at the crossover point where it's cheaper to use renewables, clean energy power, than it is to build new natural gas plants, setting aside the pollution and the other extraneous costs, all of what the economists would call extranalaties that comes with burning natural gas. setting aside that, just on even the heavily subsidized existing natural gas pricing, clean energy still beats it right now and they are projecting that it's going to go ahead and by about 2035, it will be cheaper to build a new clean energy power facility than it will be to continue to feed natural gas into your existing already built depreciated natural gas facilities. just on price is where we are going. so somebody building natural gas facilities into this projected future has a real problem on their hands. r.m.i. has found that clean energy resources beat on price alone -- on price over

provide energy to so many that you don't have don't forget 650000000 africans. do not have any kind of power that is almost 2 thirds of the continent's population so this is big big growth in that area why are so many funds though being and still being poured into oil we are addicted to oil the oil industry is africa's creative employee biggest employer the already industry still has a strong history would be a continent on a lot of people are so connected to the industry the problem you you have right now just come teach in between oil is done with knots and we've not really encouraged it and financing a lot more different kind of segments within the energy mix don't forget you come from europe and you look at these big transitions africans are not war read about the end of the world deal worried about the end of the month and every day africans want to see things moving so you have a climate change agreement that was done in paris that you provide order funding and support to african leaders who don't have any connection with every day africans so you have to

ghana is taking measures to step up production of offshore oil that he energy minister. told africa oil week summit in south africa he plans to revoke for licenses from companies that had not sufficiently developing petroleum assets at the same time says some laws must be revised to permit those who are producing to explore for more offshore oil fields in the gulf of guinea or is estimated to have oil reserves of up to 7000000000 barrels. the reuters news agency is reporting that mozambique is about to appeal a south african court ruling that is holding up the extradition of mozambique's former finance minister manuel chang and was arrested in south africa last year at the request of the united states he faces charges there related to his alleged involvement in a debt scandal that created an economic crisis in mozambique was it because also trying to extradite chang. the australian women's national soccer team will earn the same pay as the men and get an equal split of commercial revenues for the 1st time under a new deal the men's soccer rules traditionally have been pa

the energy collected is stored. it's heat in huge well insulated water basins when winter comes around they reheated with subsidized wood chips but it's not so easy to control elektra's steel production with renewables of course we have a lot of production when we have a lot of wind even though we have a lot of wind sometimes the wind turbines are stopped because there is. a lack of capacity in the transmission grid so we stop wind turbines. and we maybe we could use this instead of stopping the wind turbines maybe you could use the electricity . better. in its bid to go carbon neutral and faces the classic problem of renewables sometimes there's too much wind and solar energy and sometimes too little. possible answers to the problem including a lab or storage systems like the water tanks on there do all the expansion of the grid with pylons crisscrossing europe. at the university of southern denmark professor graeme and his interdisciplinary team at the ceiling another strategy for their aim is to achieve decentral