>> i just have a question and maybe a request, on the ab, 2188 and the united solar inspection and permitting? is that another one of those areas where i think we need to have a little bit more preplanning from the staff and director because it is going to happen and so the question is i would not want our department to be the one holding up either in inspection of the solar panels because we want to encourage that installation, and those inspections to take place. >> yes, and i am sure that our electrical inspection group agrees with you as far as i know, that is and it has been a expedited permit processing process on time and the question with this one and the reason that (inaudible) the building departments across the state oppose this legislation, and not on the basis that it was not a good idea to have more solar, but on the basis that no matter what stage of review the building department might be in, this legislation now requires that you drop everything, and you do the solar permit, or item first, if it is ten mega watts or larger, and there were concerns expressed internally by our

this germany and italy, solar last year was almost 10% of you power generation. in the unitedtates, we're not even at 1%. so just for the u.s. to get to where germany and italy are today is more than a ten fold increase in the size of the solar market. so by 2050, i suspect everybody will be far more than 10% conceivably close to half. but we don't have to again wait 35 years. solar in several major g-7 economies today is already close to 10% of the grid. >> andrew-wil, - -- or drew, ra know you're bullish on the fuft solar, but what about the challenges? a lot of people installed solar panels because as shirley just told us it was no cost to them or there were government and state incentives. here in new jersey, there was a big state incentive for a while. but separate from that, if the consumer stdoesn't have those government incentives, do you think solar can continue to grow? >> that is i think the key of what is intriguing to us at the this juncture. solar rode a big wave of sub city driven growth in the, six, seven, eight, financial crisis. a lot of governments tried to

before the earthquake they were selling about 50 solar panels a month after the earthquake there was a huge demand, but organizations in the united states and solar panels began to ship solar panels down there for free. one of their founders told me, we went from selling 50 a month to five in six months. so our desire to help actually delayed the development of local business to help the poor. john: the answer can't be to just do nothing if people are horribly poor. we're rich. people want to do something. >> it's not enough to do something. we're not called to just have a heart for the poor. we're supposed to have a mind for the poor. when our doing things make the situation worse, then we have to stop. >> a sliver of good in his movie is that finally some leaders of developed countries recognize that aid can hurt. here's the president of rwanda. >> aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of people receiving aid. >> and we heard president clinton say this isn't working. and even obama said aid isn't as good as capitalism. >> what you're seeing hopefully is that people are starting to recognize that

this solar energy unit heats water. >> what i have here is a hand-held infrared thermometer.f you hold that to the collector and press the button, than you can read, what the temperature of the collector is at the moment. >> it's registering 35 degrees celsius. the entire campus maintains high environmental standards. every newcomer, from students to professors, spends at least one day here, sorting waste. cans and plastic bottles are all recycled. that's good for the environment, because incinerating them would generate harmful co2. organic waste is also important, when it's returned to the soil as compost, it binds co2. these simple techniques help the university operate in a sustainable and climate-neutral way. >> if you want to become carbon neutral, something very important to look at when you are doing your carbon balances is, what kind of waste are you producing and what are you doing with it. >> about a quarter of costa rica's population lives in san josÉ. and only about 25 percent of the plastic bottles used here are recycled. a lot of waste ends up in the river. cos

provide connectivity, solar power, and the unit that we've developed works with again solar power, sterile water, generator from any water, no matter how contaminated the water is, working on solar power. and we need to scale these up. looking for partner, inviting partners, and i think that we need to continue to scale these big projects up from where they are. then we have another initiative, the last mile, which again we work with the bill and melinda gates foundation to take hiv vaccines with our own infrastructure because we can go the last mile with more than tens of thousands of vehicles and mike crow distributors in africa. which by the way, are womenant p entreprene entrepreneurs. which is part of our 2020 initiative. we are working to take hiv vab seens to the last mile to the imof villages and we have increased distribution to tanzania alone just in that initiative. we worked with president obama on aids day, to expedite child transmission of hiv. we are on target, and we will do that. those are all of the social infrastructure the third vector which i want to emphasize. and des

solar energy projects? >> half of the new electricity installed in the united states this year is solar. solar is competitive at this point with other kinds of electricity options, you know, without subsidies. this is a technology that is improving. because it sort of benefits from semi-conductor style innovation where they are constantly improving the production. so the costs keep coming down making solar increasingly more competitive against other forms of electricity generation. yeah, it is true that to have new projects, the lower your cost of capital is the lower rieft return required, the more attractive the projects are. and sun eds season a beneficiary of that. and the one of the fft baccalaureates of terra form. creates a project that has a low cost of capital. and that's a benefit. i'm not worried about interest rates going up because i just don't feel like they are. i feel like we're kind of stuck in the zero rate interest rate policy. and they move a quarter or half a percent or year i don't see how that is going to change the basic economics of deciding whether or not you wa

so delight, seven years ago solar units were, first of all, too expensive for a household to use.hat you're at 40 million, you've proven a model with a profitable company that is continuing to grow. we're also seeing a platform on which you can build other lessons and other kinds of products. so that company has spawned other companies like a company called mcopa which is now a joint venture between delight, the solar company, and pesa which is a mobile banking platform in kenya. based on the insight that the poor want access to solar and, frankly, they want access to more than a light. they'd like a system. and once you make that conversion -- we had to do the hard work for five years to convert people to actually trust that solar would work better than kerosene. but the real thing is you pay for kerosene a little bit every day. that's how they wanted to pay. so the economists who say, well, if you're paying $4 a month for your solar and $5 a month for kerosene, of course you want solar. but if you're paying 50 cents a day for your kerosene, that's all that matters. now with mobi

are big oil companies, let's invest that money in innovative solutions right here in the united states, like solar, like wind. geo thermal. other ideas that maybe haven't even fully been developed yet. we are an amazing country, innovative country, and we can do it. i think there is a very large distinction between myself and mr. macarthur in this regard. we know we've talked about, we've learned through this combain that -- campaign that he is invested in foreign oil companies, state owned oil companies by russia and china. the russian company is a company that has been sanctioned recently by the united states and by the european union for their involvement in removing the gas tower power from the ukraine. i think that is a real conflict here. i also think when i hear things like we need to exploit every resource at our disposal, that gives me a reason for great concern of oil exploration off of the coast of the beautiful jersey shoreline and that's something that this district certainly does not want. so again, it's about looking to alternatives, investing in alternatives, which not only makes f

are big oil companies, let's invest that money in innovative solutions right here in the united states like solar, like wind, geothermal, other ideas that made have not even be fully developed yet. we are an amazing and innovative country command we can do it. think there is a large distinction between myself and mr. tom macarthur in this regard. we have talked about that he is investing in foreign oil companies, state-owned while companies by russia and china. the russian company that has been sanctioned recently by the united states and by the european union for their involvement in removing the gas from the ukraine. it think that is a conflict here. i also think that -- you know, i hear things like we need to exploit every resource at our disposal. that gives me reason for great concern. oil exploration off the coast of the beautiful jersey shoreline. that is something that this -- this district certainly does not want. again, looking to alternatives, investing in alternatives which not only makes for a cleaner environment, but also use our economy right here at home in the third district. >>

today that company sells about 500,000 units a month mostly in africa. and has brought affordable solar light to 40 million people. i happened to be visiting one of those individuals with this big australian distributer for africa, and the woman we were visiting is this tiny woman, grandmother, and i said to her why don't you tell david what you like and don't like about this light. and the old charity model people would always say nice things to you because you're just giving them a gift. in this model, she's a customer. but i did not expect her to be quite as forthcoming as she was, and she puts her hands on her hips and she says, well, first, if i could charge my cell phone at the same time i was charging my light, this would be a much better product. and i thought, well, that is a great insight. and then she went, and second -- and then went on to give him four recommendations as to how he would improve his light. and as i was watching this little woman talk to this big man, i thought this is the -- this is why i started act you men, and this is the power of patient capital because

provide connectivity, solar power, and the unit that we've developed works with again solar power, sterile water, generator from any water, no matter how contaminated the water is, working on solar power. and we need to scale these up. looking for partner, inviting partners, and i think that we need to continue to scale these big projects up from where they are. then we have another initiative, the last mile, which again we work with the bill and melinda gates foundation to take hiv vaccines with our own infrastructure because we can go the last mile with more than tens of thousands of vehicles and mike crow distributors in africa. which by the way, are womenant p entreprene entrepreneurs. which is part of our 2020 initiative. we are working to take hiv vab seens to the last mile to the imof villages and we have increased distribution to tanzania alone just in that initiative. we worked with president obama on aids day, to expedite child transmission of hiv. we are on target, and we will do that. those are all of the social infrastructure the third vector which i want to emphasize. and des

that are big oil companies let's move that money and innovative solutions right here in the united states like solarind, geothermal and other ideas that maybe haven't been developed yet. we are an amazing and innovative country into the can do it and i think that there is a very large distinction between myself and mr. macarthur: in this regard. we talked about reforms in the campaign that he's invested in the foreign oil company in the state owned companies by russia and china. it has been sanctioned by the united states and by the european union for their involvement in removing the gas tower from ukraine so that is a conflict here. i also think when i hear things like we need to exploit every resource at our disposal that gives me reason for great concern. oil exploration off the coast of the beautiful jersey shoreline and that's something this district certainly doesn't want so it is about looking to alternatives, investing in alternatives alternatives that not only makes for a cleaner environment but also boosts our economy at home in the third district. >> moderator: thank you. a macarthur: i

provide connectivity, solar power, and this unit that we've developed works with, again, solar power. 1,000 liters of sterile water generated from any water, no matter how contaminated the water is, working on solar power. and we need to scale these up. we're looking for partners. we're inviting partners to come and join us. i talked to strive about it and i think all we need to continue to scale these big projects up from where they are. then we have another initiative, which is the last mile, which again we work with the bill and melinda gates foundation to take hiv vaccines with our own infrastructure because we request go the last mile with more than tens of thousands of vehicles and microdistributors in africa, which by the way most are women entrepreneurs, so that's part of our 5 by 20, 5 million women to be empowered by 2020 initiative, which connects into the microdistribution to take hiv vaccines to the last mile to the villages and we have increased distribution to tanzania alone just through that initiative that's part of the commitment we had with president obama on world'

(narrator) to begin his journey the pharaoh unites with the sun god and boar t solar boat. during t twelv noctnal hours, they sail from dusk to dawn, from death to resurrection. in hour one, the god appears as a ram-headed figure symbolizing the ul othe sun and as a beetle, a syol of the hoped-for dawn... 's greet ie neerwod with jubilatio- deities raise their arms as he brings light into the derworld. the voyage begins in earnest in hours two and three, as the sun god travels across the water ofhe netherworld, bringing civilization and order to t afterlife. but trouble is on the horizon. in the fourth hour, the water dries up and he finds himself in his sun boat on sand. he's also confronted by a strange-looking zigzag that runs through this fourth hour very much like a descending shaft from a tomb from above. but in any cas 's blockinhiway, as ithe nd. and so at this point we find that the sun god is challenged as to how he's going to proceed to move through the hours of the night. (narrator) the as a ske,vercomes this by turnyou can move across sand.. snakes don't need w

unit 33 right now. and behind us is our solar panel system. it was installed in 2001.we started our push to be one of the greenest county facilities in the country. so the ones here on the roof don't move or anything but take the sun in to create energy. the ones on the hillside those rotate with the sun as it passes over to be more efficient. we then installed more on the services building and those actually heat up the water for the entire facility. >> in all santa rita has 9,000 rooftop solar panels and another 1,100 installed on the hillside behind the jail. to maximize use of renewable resources the jail installed five wind turbines and hydrogen fuel cell power plant it serves as a pollution-free source of electricity and heat. >> we wanted to be a leader in the area and do something good for the earth. >> in the jail's protective custody wing, an unusual church service might be doing some good for inmates who otherwise would be enemies. they are former gang members, gay men and accused sex offenders. >> they all sit together and it's -- it's very powerful. >> tru

united states. the moon coming across the sun. and just partially. not a total solar eclipse. and that dark spot that you see in the middle there, that's not a thing on the camera or on your tv. that is one of the biggest sun spots in years. across the area. >> amazing pictures. >> yeah. see, i get interested in the sun spot. all right. well, as far as our weather is concerned, things are going to be improving. more sunshine tomorrow. that pushes the temperature about 10 degrees higher than today and a really nice weekend. look at the 70s next week. >> that's what i'm interested in. thanks, glenn. for all of us here at nbc 10, thanks for watching. i'm renee chenault-fattah. >> i'm jim roasenfield. >>> on our broadcast tonight, ebola scare. a doctor here in new york rushed to the hospital with ominous symptoms after he treated ebola patients in africa. >>> moment of crisis, the startling new images released tonight showing the gunman storming canada's seat of power. and tonight, the man who stopped him is being hailed as a national hero. >>> taking action, the high school chang

wind makes up about 2% of electricity generation here in the united states, nationally least, and solars well less than 1%, so you are seeing renewables grow very quickly. some countries -- germany is approaching 20%, 30% on renewables, and in some states here in the u.s. you actually see some pretty high percentages, 10%, 20% renewable generation in some of the states, so i think you are seeing that renewables can play a much bigger role. they are not available all the time, so when you think about coal, gas, you can turn the plans on when you need them, nuclear the same thing, hydro more or less the same thing, you have the intermittency problem. i think generally the technologies have -- this is not always true -- but they are more costly a lot of time satellite a big question about the cost of wind is well, how windy is it when you put in a when determine or how sonny is it when yo -- sunny is it when you are putting in a solar panel. the caller also mentioned nuclear. we currently use nuclear fission for about 20% of our electricity in the united states. nuclear fission -- there ha

solar. wind is applicable other places in the united states, not necessarily in the southeast. unced another deal here recently. >> yeah. >> my sense is that continues to grow. when you think about everything that we've either invested in or procured, it rempresents 4% of the generating capacity. now, that's still a big number. southern company from energy production stand point is a little smaller, but similar in size to the nation of australia. >> right. >> got to do it. got to do it. not as big as everything else. you got to do it, but worth less than what you paid for, but that's okay. you don't have to market to market, do you? did you say this, the market does not expect qe to expire? so you don't think there -- that's wrong. you expect qe to expire, but you don't think the market knows it's coming, so -- that's a mistake, right? >> i'm speaking on my behalf, my opinion, not as my role at the fed. i think the market discounted that. the interesting question is interest rating. i said this before on the show that i think the most over optimistic in america is unemployment.

solar. in 2009, the united states had zero utility scale projects. by the way in the 2009 pointing back to the financial discussion, the debt financing was not easily available. the loan program stepped in and provided support for five projects successfully. today there are 17 projects greater than 100 megawatts completely with private financing. that is the model of what we want to do. get this kick starter and have the private-sector takeover. now there've been failures. it's a default. the default. the portfolio had a 2% default rate. i don't know of other investment portfolios that have this kind of success rate. so it is very easy to find the one, two, three projects that have default. it is a 2% default rate. as i said earlier we had $40 billion left during the 30s. is there anything that we can get it done or they targeted opportunity if you're dealing with the chairman lisa murkowski on the senate energy committee next year as opposed to the chairwoman mary landrieu? >> it is the main guide to what we are doing in the energy space supplemente

sells aboutompany 500,000 units a month in africa and has brought affordable solar light to 40 millioneople. i happen to be visiting one of those individuals with this big australian distributor for africa. it was this tiny woman, a grandmother. i said to her, "tell me what you like and don't like about this like." people would always say nice things and charity because use given-- because you've them a gift. in this model, she's a customer. i did not expect her to be quite as forthcoming as she was and she puts her hands on her hips and she says i'm "well, if i could charge my cell phone at the same time, this would be a much better product." .hat's a great insight -- went on give him to give him for recommendations. this woman talked to this big why iout -- this is started acumen. she is not pandering or begging. she is talking to him as an he is as a customer and trying to earn her trust. in that interaction, they have the opportunity to transform each other. thate, that's the dignity comes from real moral ad imagination. i'm here to build something with you because we both have som

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united states has ever states. >> well, whether it's time for a nice cool dress? pauline, you are not just a fashion designer but somebody who is creating wearable tech, dresses that are solared. talk about your fashion and what inspired you to go this route. >> yes. well, i am a fashion designer. i am studying, trained as a fashion designer but specialable in wearable technology. i have a huge fascination for the potential that technology offers and how we cannot only add functionality to fashion but many new ways of expressions. so wearable solar is a rebate project where i integrated solar cells into fashion and by wearing these pieces, your body becomes an actual source for energy. what inspires me is the fact that we are all so much depending upon connectivity. we are hooked to our smart phones and want them to be constantly powered. so, when we leave the house, there are two things we always have with us, our clothing and s so, i thought why not power your phone through your cloths. >> i wish i could power my phone through this jacket. not everyone is on board, lisa. there is skepticism about climate change and the unemployed, how can we help climate change? not if pe

united states. they have exposure to the shales, the oil sands, and the natural gas gathering business where they collect from a well and transport it. and they have wind and solarrgy. they make money from fees. not much volatility in the results. thanks to our country's energy renaissance, they have a lot of growth projects under construction that are commercially secured. a big boost is coming to the company's earnings. they had a big analyst day yesterday. one worry that came up is that some of the part-tiipelines got delayed. let's take a closer took and learn more about prospects with mr. monoco. just like last year you had a big energy conference, you reinvested in the dividend, you went up in the market. this was the first time where i felt when i went through the comps that there may have been more about regulation and how that can really slow you down than ever before. >> yeah, i think that's right. let me maybe just set the context. it's tough out there, no doubt about that. if you look at the last two to three years and what we will do in the next two to three, we did a lot in terms of executing in the field. there is a concern about regulation and ho

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united states and india have agreed on $1 billion of financing from the u.s. export-import bank. controversial institution. the money will be spent on india's renewable energy sector. a solar has $330 million in a u.s. ipo. the company sold 26 million shares. to 30%ovide customers up in terms of the cut on their current utility rates. and,'europ -- and europes first eco-mosque will be billed. it has been designed by the architect of the iconic london eye. to promotened environmental sustainability among other things of course. for those listening on bloomberg radio, the first word is up next. for our viewers, it is a second hour of "the pulse." defiance on china's national day. lord hill in the hot seat in brussels. and director of the financial inclusion center will be joining us. sapphire's spending cuts. the french have announced fairly big cuts this morning. they are not going to hit any of their financial targets in the near term and they are refusing austerity. interesting combination. a reminder, you can follow me on twitter. we will take a break. we will leave our radio viewers there. for our viewers, "the pulse" will be back in a couple minutes time. ♪ on china's

solar and wind. that being said we can't throw the switch and walk away. it can be used here in the unitedwisely. right now we are shipping overseas and i'm glad we have those jobs and we are actually able to mine or call but if those rules had been passed -- i am sorry candidate went into place it could have devastated this. the reality is there was a bill that could stop it and it was sent to harry reid's desk again it's still laying there but unfortunately, our current congressman didn't vote on that however he did come back after the accords court said that it stopped and he didn't want to do that all the way. that is and isn't how he voted. >> moderator: is bradshaw. bradshaw: what the coal industry is doing is putting the interest of the miners, the coal mine owners actually against the interest of farmers who have to deal with the global warming affect against the interest of the wineries in southern illinois come southern illinois, against the interest of the children with asthma and people that have brain damage from mercury poisoning. this is putting the interest of the very smal

solar power. the opportunities of today and tomorrow are not and there is a strategy issue that is an important one to grapple with. when it comes to coal technology. the united states understands that coal will be a part of the global energy mix. it is a part of the mix of the united states, although today's share of coal in our total fuel mix is significantly reduced from that which it was as little as years ago. you have seen a drop from where it has been 50% of the fuel mix today and it a couple of years ago in response to the realtime movement of natural gas prices in the u.s. where a very surprising thing happened where you had coal and natural gas representing roughly equal shares for a short time, about 32% of our fuel mix. so we expect that coal will be a part of the fuel mix going forward both in the united states and elsewhere. but then there is what technologies. this has been certainly true as they have both underscored, that all things being equal, it is preferable to have higher efficiency coal technologies in the market place. there is no question about that. the u.s. perspective is that the use of public finance to support non-carbon capture

solar power. of today and tomorrow, they are not identical. point two, there is a strategy issue that is an important one to grapple with. when it comes to coal technology, the united states understands that coal will be a part of the global energy mix and a part of the mix of the united states. today's share of coal in our total fuel mix is significantly reduced from that which it was ten years ago. a drop from where coal has been about 50% of the u.s. fuel mix and today it is just under 40. there was a point a couple of years ago in response to the realtime movement of natural gas prices in the u.s. where a very surprising thing happened where you had coal and natural gas representing equal shares for a short time about 32% of our fuel mix. we expect that will be part of the united states and elsewhere. and this is true. and all things being equal, it is preferable to have higher efficiency coal technologies in the market place. no question about that. the use to support non-carbon capture technology in the market place is not something that we feel is appropriate. why? because and energy technology perspectives and a document that was just released in the summer

solar and wind. but that being said we can't just all of a sudden through the switch and walk away from the coal because it can be used. the unitedsely. right now we are shipping overseas. had they went into place it could have devastated this. it could stop it and it was sent to the desk again and it's still playing their. after the courts said that it stopped and a stock that he didn't want to do that all the way along. bradshaw: they are putting the interest of the miners against the interest of farmers and the global warming affect. against the interest of the wineries in southern illinois, against the interest of the children with asthma and the people that have brain to damage. this is the interest of a small group of miners against the rest of the people in america and in the world because they are all over the world where they have droughts and wildfires and floods and gained many people suffer so you say we can't flip the switch yes we can. the money that we spent spend on the subsidies and of the war if we could turn it into renewable energy switching our infrastructure we could do it very quickly. we can mobilize very

solar and wind. that being said we cannot just all this sudden walk away from coal. we cannot nor should we because it can be used here in this uniteds wisely. right now we're shipping overseas and a plaid we're being able to mine for the cool - - but what has been passed i'm sorry. had they went into place it could have devastated us. the reality is there was a bill that did stop and is sent to breeds descanted is still laying there but unfortunately our current congressman did come back after the court said it stopped best just not how you do voting. >> paula bradshaw. bradshaw: the coal industry bids the interest against the interest of farmers to have to deal with the facts against the interests of the zero wineries in southern illinois and the children with asthma and people who have damage from mercury poisoning. this is the interest of a very small group but the effects of global climate change with wildfires and floods and hurricanes. we can focus which. foss of fuel subsidies and it we could switch error investor asher that we could mobilize very quickly when we want to but i am known for rolling up the new industry in a sm