that you have the expertise on energy efficiency and we would like to pay you to lend that expertise to the facilities improvements and so that is where the green commissioning and design review program comes into. and focus on the new construction and the retrocommissioning and really it insures that the city is building energy efficient in, when they make those facility and improvements and so a good example of that is the recently opened public safety building. >> and with that, i think that i have given you a good teaser on the different things that we do and i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. thank you. >> thank you. and if i could ask a quick question, and we talked about it on the commission of the environment and the folks that we talked about today and can you give us status report on clean power sf? >> yes. so, we are and we are actively cooperating collaborating with the lasco folks in performing some additional study on the feesbility on pursuing the clean power sf and we are also aware of the feesbility study ordinance that supervisor avalos sponsored along with a number of his colleagues, supervisor colleagues. and so we are

generation and energy efficient items and i know that we are going to lose at a minimum, commissioner tores and i want to thank you for joining but if it is okay with the environment commissions if we call item e, i think that it is particular interest and important to hear. >> monica, if you call item e? >>renewable generation and energy efficiency (barbara hale, sfpuc & cal broomhead, sfe) >> >> good, afternoon. thank you very much. >> and i was remembering that when i was working at the city's puc and moran was the general manager and at one point, commissioner cain was the new commissioner on the commission and so it is wonderful to be back in front of you again. and i am going to go three top level and just kind of clip the tree topps of every issue that we deal with very quickly and i want us to think about that most of our workers in the private sector, we have five basic tools that we use with, and we try to employ all of them in our renewable and energy efficiency program and the first one is education and the tomorrow is already talked about and she did not mention phebe the phoenix being in the classroom and we do a lot of pushing and contractors and their crew, an

enlargement has said kiev still needs to prove its european credentials and that reforms brock's energy commission has won the bailout for greece is peanuts compared to what we needed to save the kids economy the president of the european commission says the e.u. is simply not ready to welcome ukraine right now and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe germany which comes as no surprise to financial expert patrick. ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how it's signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union out the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a catastrophic move for the ukrainian economy the only winners either this or a few sadly deluded egos whether they're in brussels whether they're in washington who believe some horror of that they've achieved a great geopolitical victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hard here there's only going to be job losses. early on said washington has been blaming russia for fanning the conflict in ukraine and threatening sancti

the energy efficient program that we offer to our customers is funded through the public goods fun. that program was authorized to us by the california utility commission. pg and e offers the same and we're offering something as well. we offer rebates, technical assistance and we're offering an on bill repayment program for our customers who want to implement energy efficient upgrade. that's unique because we've partnered with local bank and they're offering loans for the upgrades and they pay the loan back on our customer bills so increase a direct tide. we also have paid for the fund -- for the installation of electrical vehicle charging. we're offering a battery storage program to our immediate yaum and large commercial customers. we partnered with an organization called bidgley. and those are basically tools that give energy -- it can tell you how much the appliances are costing you. we help fund the marine green business program. it's apart of the bay area green business program. finally i want to mention that pca create local jobs and that's something we're proud of. more than 1300 california jobs have been created through mce since we started se

energy commission. is this well get ready for potentially a cold winter ahead this comes. it had its gas cut off by russia after it failed to pay billions in u.s. dollars an outstanding bills ukraine is the main point of transit at the moment the getting gas into europe in many european nations rely on russian gas as either their main or in some cases their only source of energy now alexey miller the head of gazprom the russian gas giant is been talking to russian prime minister dmitry medvedev and said they should expect ukraine will try and siphon off some of this gas now they do have form when it comes to the grain they did it in two thousand and six they did it in two thousand and nine and two thousand and nine we saw particularly a harsh time a harsh winter for countries like bald garia and slovakia now. also many other nations across europe seventeen countries in two thousand and nine reported that they had extreme shortages and eight went completely bone dry so if you create does take this gas it could have huge repercussions for those who have paid their bills in e

it's interesting that in this particular dispute europe is siding with the gas problem european energy commission a mistake and are said that the price that gazprom is offering is completely fair compared to what europe is paying hold of russian natural gas and that any company has the legal right to demand that its debts to it must be paid in full of course europe has all the rights to be concerned as third of its natural gas it's consuming comes from russia and half of it is being transmitted through the ukrainian territory the interesting question is why ukraine has been unhappy with the price offered by russia it wants to sit on both chairs at the same time wants the best of both worlds the preferential price which russia reserves to its closest by. those particular members of the customs union and at the same time be close with europe or some countries in europe are paying a lot more than that we cannot say anything for sure when it comes to gas prices this is commercial confidentiality but as the major suggested that countries like macedonia and slovenia are paying in excess of five hundred

energy commission. is this well get ready for potentially a cold winter ahead now this comes after ukraine had it gas cut off by russia after it failed to pay billions if us dollars an outstanding bills ukraine is the main point of transit at the moment for getting gas into europe or many european nations rely on russian gas as either their main or in some cases their only source of energy if those supplies are siphoned off well it can have an effect as it has in the past when ukraine's being cut off and they start to take that gas they did it in two thousand and six last time was in two thousand and nine seventeen countries here in europe reported shortages eight were completely without any gas amongst those the most worst affected were countries like bulgaria and slovakia we saw real problems there when it came to heating to industry that was pretty much shut down so it is a big deal if ukraine starts to take this gas that is destined for europe since it's being cut off for the failure to pay its bill

energy commission a gunther often go here has warned that the e.u. should get ready for a cold winter that after ukraine was cut off from russian gas after it failed to pay billions of dollars of debt ukraine is a major transit partner delivering gas to europe where business and households rely on russian fuel and for some of them it's the only source of gas and the main fear now is ukraine could start siphoning the gas off as it's done so before for the first time in two thousand and six and then in two thousand and nine because of the crisis at that time slovakia declared a state of emergency and bulgaria had to shut down some of its industrial operations and as moscow guarantees it will meet its contract obligations barry said it or in chief of the business new europe magazine believes it's kiev who might break the deal. russia has always been a reliable supplier to europe even in the cold war when we really were enemies with them the soviet union. the soviet union continued to deliver gas the problem here with the insecurity and russian gas suppl

commissioner for enlargement has said to kiev is still needs to prove its european convention brock's energy commission has won the bailout for greece is peanuts compared to the billions brussels would have to be to cough up to save kids' ailing economy the president of the european commission says the e.u. is not ready to integrate a country like ukraine at its stage that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany which comes as no surprise to financial expert patrick. ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how it's signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union are the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a catastrophic move for the ukrainian economy the only winners either this or a few sadly deluded egos whether they're in brussels whether they're in washington who believe some horror other they've achieved a great geopolitical victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hard here there's only going to be job losses there is no economic growth to be hard by sudden

the burden of stereotypic well they're not really into expanding the union right now the logs energy commission awards that the bailout for greece is peanuts compared to the billions that brussel would have to cough up to save ukraine's ailing economy the president of the european commission says the u.s. is not ready to integrate a country like ukraine at this stage and that's a sentiment that is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany and brussels is facing a huge battle to keep its old members at the moment rather than welcoming new ones sorties police reports. less than a month ago a year a skeptic earthquake rocked the european parliamentary elections and t.e.u. parties claimed first place in britain france and denmark leaving the e.u.'s image battered and bruised now one man wants to give the european union project the ultimate make over by helping citizens form an emotional attachment to the let's face it the winds ling e.u. brand it's a monumental task its. role is to make it fun so we can make you laugh and we can turn the european union into something you ca

has said here but still needs to prove its european credentials and enact reforms the blocks energy commission has warned the bailout for greece is peanuts compared to what will be needed to save here of the economy the president of the european commission says the e.u. is simply not ready to welcome ukraine right now and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany comes as no surprise to financial experts tricky. ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how did sign the free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union are the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a catastrophic move for the ukrainian economy the only winners either this or a few sadly deluded egos whether they're in brussels whether they're in washington who believe some horror other they've achieved a great geopolitical victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hard here there's only going to be job losses. from the onset washington has been blaming russia for fanning the conflict in ukraine and th

and will be interesting enough that europe in this particular row is siding with gazprom its energy commission mr edgar said recently that the price which gas from is offering is quite fair regarded compared to what is being played in europe and that any company has the legal right to demand that all debts to it must be paid in full of course europe has all the rights to be concerned i thirty of natural gas it's consuming comes from russia and half of it is being transmitted through the ukrainian territory so i mean everybody wants a good deal in life but you've got to pay for what you get also it's one of those i'm failing rules why. crane's problem here with what's on the table if he you say it's not a bad deal guys akins considering the whole background story to this as well and the debt still haven't been paid that is a very interesting question especially considering that we cannot say for sure the exact prices which european countries are paying for the russian gas we know only of estimates but the estimates are suggesting that some countries in europe are paying in excess of four hundre

on capitol hill today the senate energy commission passed a bill to force approval.ority leader harry reid will not allow a vote on the senate floor. >>> finally, a twitter lesson for everyone. little details get notes especially when you have more than 500,000 followers like apple ceo tim cook. while touring a production line the apple boss center out a picture with a tweet. pc world noticed something odd. the computer in the background is running a windows operating system from archrival microsoft, even while producing apple products. twitter sure noticed, it usually does, one replied made in america with microsoft windows. others defends the boss saying macs can do anything even running windowses. >>> and allgys on next tuesday's runoff election between six-term mississippi senator thad cochran and chris mcdaniels. >> reporter: a week to the mississippi runoff and it's anybody's race. one poll shows senator thad cochran with a slim lead while another suggests challenger chris mcdaniel will win in a landslide. mcdaniel is hoping eric cantor's stunning loss in virgi

of the things that the biomedical enterprise benefited from in the early days of the atomic energy commission and d.o.e. and so on was the ability to bring to bear some of the really great engineering and mathematical skills in the national laboratories to bear on medical problems. i think that one of the things that has happened over recent years is a certain degree of compartmentalization so they nih takes care of life sciences and the department of energy is worried about other aspects of biology and science. but there is in my opinion a great deal to the gained by bringing these agencies together so that they -- can combine the multi-disciplines that they each encourage in pursuit of some other really important biomedical problems. it would help us a lot if he could do that. >> jonathan beat me to the punch but i'm going to take this opportunity to talk about the development of antibiotics. it does fit into your question about collaboration. stick with me for a second. one of the issues is these drugs would be approved for very limited populations. this legislation would give fda the flex

the federal energy regulatory commission maintains its role to permit the citing of facilities just as under current law and ferc, as it's known, will have nepa to conduct an environmental assessment and e.i.s., environmental impact statement, if that's required so that does not change either. the same requirements under nepa will still be met whether -- under this law should it become law. so we are not in any way degrading or compromising environmental standards. they are still going to be satisfied. so for all those reasons i want to thank the sponsors of this bill, representative gardner, and i ask -- sponsor of this bill, representative gardner, and i ask you to support it. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman, we're going to reserve our time. might i inquire of the gentleman from colorado how many more speakers you have? mr. gardner: we have two additional speakers. mr. waxman: we'll continue to reserve our time, and then i presume the gentleman from colorado will want to close on his bill, so after your two speakers we'll close on our

this power grab of the power grid, bypasses the federal energy regulatory commission, bypasses the states which each state has a utility commission, to regulate their electricity and control the price of it. >> does bother you, bob, george shut, a former nixon, reagan cab nut member, has no problem with it. hank paulsen has no problem. they're worried about climated change and if we don't do something nowxpqoaj? take out an insurance policy, we'll regret it. the president has included them in a task force to look at this and the problems that are mounting, including michael bloomberg, who you just mentioned. do you feel like in that company you're an odd man out? >> no, i'm not an odd man out. i'm in the mainstream of the scientific factions. if you shut down every coal-fired power plant in america it would affect the amount of carbon dioxide 1/20th of one percent. china is going to burn 4,300,000,000 tons of coal this year. he is not the united states -- knocked the united states goal industry down. they're going to -- has nothing to do with the environment. it has to do with power. it h

and through the federal energy regulatory commission. d.o.e. has an important role in the export to make sure that we don't increase our natural gas prices to where they're in the affordable to our country. we're in an energy renaissance because of the success of natural gas, fracking, directional drilling in our country and we're producing more natural gas than we can use, whether it be for electricity production or from our chemical industry. i represent a huge chemical complex in east harris county and this is a renaissance in the expansion of those chemical industries and it's increasing jobs, increasing exports because a lot of those chemicals we're producing from our u.s. natural gas will be exported so someone else will pay for those jobs in our district in east harris county. the department of energy has a role in this. the problem we have is that the department of energy is taking so long to approve these permits. the d.o.e. really just needs to look at if it's in our national interest and they include all these things under it, and tha

former official role for the commission, as many of us would like, is certainly up to the task, in my view, but we have got a situation at play right now within the federal energy regulatory commission. it appears that the white house doesn't want to keep the acting chair in charge. its nominee to serve as chairman, in my view, is both short on energy experience and largely unaware of the electric reliability implications of e.p.a.'s rules. in response to a hearing question about grid reliability from senator manchin, the nominee conceded that he -- quote -- has not been following the decisional process at e.p.a. closely enough to know. well, i find that that response is not only disturbing, i think it raises the question of whether or not anyone within the administration is actually following the e.p.a. process closely enough to know what will happen to our electric grid. i can tell you that i don't think that e.p.a. knows the impacts from my state of alaska. the agency readily admits that its proposal fails to account for the expected costs and benefits for areas outside the contiguous united states. madam president, we're 1/5 the size of the country, we are

energy commission who missed the. guy who said that this was all due to a series of bank transfers and he seemed quite but mused about what did go to go on basically the money he had left in accounts and he had gone to new york into new york being transferred to moscow however the money how to write in the bank account in moscow in time for the required paperwork to be done so that the so that gazprom could look at it and say yes that money is definitely you know recount now from the russian side we heard from mr novak the russian energy minister he said that ok we don't have the required paperwork however as a goodwill gesture we're willing to take the ukrainian sides would as they have found that it was transferred and as long as that money shows up by two pm european time on monday then talks would continue it. in brussels. now with regards to what they are discussing at the moment they're still quite poles apart when it comes to some of the major issues about just how much ukraine will have to pay for gas in the f

the chairman of the federal energy regulatory commission described the grid as -- and i quote -- "close to the edge." end quote. with coal-fired power plants running at 90% capacity to keep houses warm during an historically cold winter. mr. president, these are the very plants that are being targeted by this administration. closing these power plants which provide affordable power throughout the year will severely jeopardize our ability to produce reliable electricity and heat during times of peak power demand. this will be particularly dangerous in winter months when an overstressed grid could leave thousands and thousands of americans without a source of heat for their homes. mr. president, driving up energy bills and compromising the energy grid would be sufficient reason to reject the president's new carbon dioxide regulations, but that is not all that these regulations will do. the president's new regulations will also destroy tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of jobs , firs first, of course, there e the thousands of americans who will lose their jobs when the c

and, number four, the chair of the federal energy regulatory commission and the president of the north american electric reliability corporation would have to certify that electricity delivery would remain reliable. so the coal country protection act is just common sense. now the majority leader moments ago blocked consideration of this measure. unless we take this up, debate it and pass it, the president's rules will cause job loss, utility rate hikes and potentially brownouts. the president's regulation will lower -- the president's regulations will actually increase energy prices and create job loss. opponents of this bill would be supporting job loss in kentucky. our economy being hurt, and seniors' energy bills spiking for almost zero -- almost zero -- meaningful global carbon reduction. so the majority leader and the democrats in this body need to listen. and even if they won't, kentuckians should know i'll keep fighting for them. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senat

they may need to get permission from a public utility commission before they're allowed to invest in the next generation energyproduction or distribution. so if they haven't done any innovating, all of a sudden an innovator arrives, it can be even more chaotic and catastrophic than in the competitive industries. >> >> host: where are you based, and what's your day job? >> guest: i'm based in silicon valley. i write for a number of different publications, and mostly i'm the last couple years doing research for this book. >> host: and this is your third book, correct? >> guest: yes. >> host: "big bang disruption: strategy in the age of devastating innovation." when you talk about exponential technologies, what do you mean? >> guest: a good example is one we talked about before which is computer technology. you double a number every 12-18 months. you're not incrementally improving it, in fact, you're exponentially ip proving it. you deep doubling a small number, you're getting a big number. that's the kind of one of the main technologies we looked at. but, you know, there are exponential technologies in a lot of

commission. we could see work on oil and gas energy production. the supreme court has ruled that the environmental protection agency lacks authority in some cases to force cases -- .ompanies it will not affect recent proposals for new and existing power plants. we take a look now at the oral argument the situation presented by this case is, to our knowledge, unprecedented in at least two respects. epa says it is adopted when applying other positions of those same statutes . it would, according to their terms, in the words of epa, result in a program that would be unrecognizable to the thatess that react -- inactivate. second, eda took that conclusion not as a reason to re-examine tooknterpretation -- epa that conclusion not as a reason to re-examine its interpretation. agency fixes the problem. and this is not a single, one-time act of statutory rewriting, as problematic as that would be, because they continue to adjust and readjust the thresholds based on its ongoing assessment of the cost and benefits of regulations. eisler, your interpretation

also and has energy security in europe i remember here opinion commission president jose manuel barroso saying that you can't create the illusion that gas from the united states is going to solve all of its problems and there are so many different estimates of how much it could take but in your personal opinion what's your estimate how much time does the u.s. need to put their shale gas export into action no well that's that's quite speculative we know that there is one project or proving that in the u.s. and there is many more it would be for levels of pro believed to be being explored so it is unclear and moreover the u.s. is increasing its own demand for its own gas so this is it's too soon to tell in my view but you know people like to speculate and when we announce that we're having you in our program i was going to be a gas there's a viewer of ours who sent us this question who's asking is there any weight to the idea that this russia ukraine gas conflict is being stirred up by the u.s. for syrup which suppliers. well that's that's pure speculation and i certainly don't agree with

>> steve, we seem to have a compromised solution selected by the energy e u commission in the last few minute that is ukraine would pay up to $1 billion today and pay the remaining cash later on throughout the year. is that really a compromised solution for ukraine and russia if they can't agree on price? >> reporter: well, it could be. i have seen the same comments from the european commission as well. it could be, but don't forget they have already compromised on the table with ukraine paying the best part of $800 million. the russian side said they are actually owed the best part of $5 billion for gas already delivered as well. so you've got to remember this $326 figure per cubic that the commission put forward. the ukrainians want to pay $268 and the russians want to sell at $385, that was dismissed at hand so there's horse trading going on. if it was in isolation we would get a deal, but the trouble is there are other things going on. the new president said they will never give up on crimea as well. and you have tragic events going on an almost daily basis east of the country, whi