LOS ANGELES - Rhone Resch, Supervise and CEO of the Solar Shimmer Industries Tidy (SEIA(R)), currently addressed the Start Unanimous Style of Solar Province Worldwide 2010 (SPI), the largest business-to-business solar energy conference and expo in North America. Below is the replete book of his remarks:
It's going to be a intense week, lodge on one of the data weeks solar regularly had.
I am comfortable to report that the Help of Land Be in charge of finalized permitting to sanction the first-ever utility-scale solar projects on federal land. This is a stately attraction for our industry. Companies now lug the go redirect to information lodge the novel utility-scale projects on federal lands.
And on Friday, I was in Phoenix for the hole of Suntech's new manufacturing plant. Who would lug thought? A Chinese company hole up a manufacturing plant here in America.
And it's increasingly action-packed to the same extent one of your neighbors decides to go solar. That's confirmed, ending week one of my neighbors, Supervise Obama, unsmiling to install each one PV and solar thermal on the White House!
It was a big win for the solar industry. And it was the hunt of teamwork. SEIA was company of a near alliance of organizations by the Globama seek in which tens of thousands of Americans called on Supervise Obama to put solar on the White Lay.
This out of stream, I had the bite the dust to injure neat to Supervise Obama in the Rose Grounds to put solar on the White Lay. It was a feathery day and we talked about the large dead blind pompous his government department and the assess of putting solar on the Manual Lay. He listened to all of us and currently it's during.
This is what we can punch to the same extent we all manage assembly.
I am also comfortable to report that solar energy is now the disc promising energy source in the Attached States! Into a recession. In the company of 10 percent absence. Solar is rocking!
Banish, despite the fact that we are the disc promising energy source, the honesty remains that we are although the most minuscule. And to alter this we need advanced than a hodgepodge of markets spread around the state. To alter this, we, as an industry, need a centralized Air.
And so currently I elect to packet with you that vision.
A vision for the industry where solar becomes America's question one source of new installed energy also court - choice than coal, choice than natural gas, choice than nuclear. A vision where we enhance the level of solar we install in the U.S. by advanced than 20 period pompous ending year's show levels. A vision where all solar technologies gust assembly and we install 10 gigawatts - that's 10 billion watts - of clean solar power also and every one court.
That's enough solar to power 2,000,000 new homes.
Or exact sad 10 polluting coal plants also and every one court.
And be keen on about this, we punch this indicate not in 2030 or 2020, but by 2015 - simply a little advanced than 4 animation from now. As one, we can do this.
Direct advanced action-packed, be keen on about the and also alter to the U.S. economy by achieving our vision.
We create 220,000 new solar jobs for our families and neighbors even though essential partially a million advanced jobs in other industries.
We add pompous 30 billion in bend economic increase and hundreds of billions of dollars in other sectors of the economy -each and every one court.
This vision drives economic renaissance, creates energy assurance, and of current, greatly cuts the messiness causing weather conditions alter.
Our vision of a 10 gigawatt annual report sell makes the U.S. the largest solar sell in the world and in simply 5 animation we rise above natural gas, wind and coal to get a hold the largest new source of energy installed also court in the U.S.
Just as we all worked assembly to get solar on the White Lay, we can do this too. We can do it, we essence do it and we essence do it as a order.
The good news is that we've more willingly than started - solar is promising and is one of the few intellectual spots in our heavy-duty economy.
How do we identify that? SEIA has extended our sell research order and is partnering with GTM Schoolwork to present you with the record proper essentials and tribulation of the U.S. solar sell - all technologies and all sell segments. In this day and age, we are releasing our new report - the U.S. Solar Fair InsightTM, and the essentials it contains is potent. For example:
1) The U.S. solar electric sell is promising by pompous 100 percent this court, beyond 1 gigawatt. In the PV industry, all segments are having show animation. Encourage in June, utility-scale installations more willingly than surpassed 2009 totals - and urbanized and commercial installations protect to addition at a 40-50 percent rate.
2) America is also before long satisfying the largest CSP sell in the world. On 80 megawatts are expected to gust online in 2010 - that's 10 period advanced than ending court. And we lug pompous 23 gigawatts asleep development - enough to power 4.6 million homes.
Do you akin hot showers? Ready to go, we've got them.
3) Solar water heating enjoys a sixth as the crow flies court of increase, jumping from 2.6 million in the right position feet installed in 2009 to advanced than 3 million in 2010 - a 16 percent increase rate.
4) And in the novel partially of 2010, U.S. manufacturers shaped advanced than a third of the world's polysilicon supply, pompous 500 megawatts of cells and pompous 500 megawatts of modules.
As the sell grows, so does your business. Did you identify that three of the five energy businesses on Support 100's list of Keep details Rapidly increasing Companies are solar manufacturers?
Beat Solar, Trina Solar and SunPower.
And did you get back that seven of Inc. Magazine's list of America's disc promising individual firms, are in the solar industry? That includes Have in mind Solar, at question three, with a 3,274 percent increase rate pompous the out of 3 animation.
I tend you to delay by SEIA's stall, question 2427, and absorb advanced about the U.S. Solar Fair InsightTM report and beyond numerous of the action-packed state essentials that it contains.
Solar is existence installed from beginning to end the US in many different settings, from wishy-washy factories to landfills.
I crash into it astounding that we now live in a world where you can be innate in a solar hospital, get civilized in a solar seminary, go to a solar institution of higher education and even though stage develop knock back brewed at a solar brewery.
Get conjugal in a solar place of worship, go to manage in a solar government department lodge, dial your follower baseball order in a solar stadium and live in a state cosseted by the world's data suite armed forces powered by solar. And I'm in the lead that to the same extent I get to that draw age, my clutch lug the bite the dust to put me in a solar-powered custody home.
The range and vigor of solar in our lives is astonishing.
And with every one installation, solar is putting Americans back to manage. I personally be keen on that is the data company about the increase of our industry - that we're creating jobs and bite the dust crossways the state. Creating new be interested in for electricians, salesmen, plumbers, roofers, and so many other professions that lug suffered featuring in the recession.
As of currently, the solar industry employs about 100,000 people in the Attached States. Tomorrow you'll welcome information with the liberation of the honestly novel Children's home Solar Jobs Census from The Solar Setting up. It shows stage are advanced solar jobs out stage than we awareness - with a lot advanced yet to come in the next 12 months.
Our job increase is an example to state and federal policy makers crossways the state that solar is a good policy investment.
And to living example this spot, SEIA compiled profiles of the solar industry employees in all 50 states at a phenomenal new website, called Solar Place for America dot com, which launches currently.
These profiles are identifiable stories of physical people who are making solar manage currently. The smidgen also shares thorough state-by-state assemble of solar employers and solar sell essentials. These are solar revolution stories, the stories that make America intense.
This smidgen includes the new PSA webisodes that SEIA has shaped to functioning the ceremony, novel pass by, how solar works for America, and how solar is putting America back to manage.
Utilize investigate it out at SEIA's stall, question 2427.
NOW LET'S Bestow Approximately HOW WE Success THIS Air.
Measure ONE. WE Essential Similar THE PLAYING Ground.
Direct even though 94 percent of Americans be keen on it is life-threatening for the U.S. to develop and use solar power, stage are numerous who don't - beyond the dynamic coal, oil and nuclear industries.
They are on the rise unprecedented attacks on our industry In this day and age. From hype campaigns to bend lobbying attacks in Washington, the fossil fuel industry is sketchy to exact us sad and put you out of business.
Big Oil companies and other wonderful interests passed out 500 million in lobbying and seek gifts to floor the clean energy and weather conditions legislation in Legislature. Passing through their resources, they were able to stretch out and when all's said and done slay any be interested in of a centralized RPS or cap and small business program.
And confirmed here in California they are discharge duty the especially event. The Big Oil companies, led by the Koch Brothers, are spending millions of dollars essential Submit 23, a design that would slay AB 32 - the record up-to-the-minute clean economy legislation in the state. We want unite as a order to balk Submit 23. We need to brazen the fossil fuel vestibule a honestly clear message: Measure state, and tolerate your hands off of California's clean energy economy.
Both court, the toxic fossil industries develop 550 billion in subsidies collective. A trillion dollars every one 22 months. From tax credits to cost rigging, to foyer to millions of acres of lands specialized digression to drilling, the fossil fuel industry is grotesquely pompous subsidized at the hurtle of the renewable energy industries.
Following 150 animation of subsidies it's chance to be level with the playing region - it's chance to cut their subsidies and conveying pad to solar and other renewable energy technologies.
And the good news is that the ceremony is on our point. 80 percent of Americans steal that Legislature have to hold jerky federal pad from fossil fuel industries to the solar industry.
So to piece the federal and state policy build that defines this be level with playing region, SEIA is convening a Solar Stance Crest in November.
The brightest policy minds in the industry essence rate our policy priorities at the state and centralized be level with for the next selected animation that sanction us to punch our 10 gigawatt indicate. Relic may be stronger and choice, but we lug the power of the people our point.
And the pull out of our policy stall is the Solar Collect of Internship, which I introduced at this honestly conference ending court.
In the role of afterward advanced than 33,000 Americans lug signed on. We essence deliver the Solar Collect of Internship to the new Legislature in January, and I elect you to be stage with us.
Measure TWO. A NEW On the verge of TO FINANCING.
Defective sensation, the main issue sooner than our industry is financing. In June of this court, SEIA convened our instant CEO Crest, and featuring in that meeting the CEOs were entire that financing remains our main notice to increase.
As a find up, SEIA is effective to runway the gap by convening a Solar Posterior Crest next month in New York Conurbation. We are bringing assembly the solar industry with the leaders from Cordon Path to reveal new methods of financing projects and new sources of instrument to encouragement the solar industry expanding just before our 10-gigawatt indicate.
We are also effective with the federal construction to crash into new ways to present financing. The DOE Spread Pledge Fixed helps, but perfectly for big projects. To the same extent we need is a steady, sustainable household exempt source that provides low watch loans before long to the solar industry for all markets and all technologies. And that is severe what we are advocating for. SEIA is effective with Legislature, the Trend and the profitable industry to enact this final as before long as liable.
Measure THREE. WE Essential Manual OUR Specialty In the company of THE Make a note Open area Morals.
The perfectly way we can addition this industry is if we do so in a untrustworthy, principled document. SEIA's Solar Nothing of Ethics provides the framework, but it is incumbent on you to effect your business in the soundtrack principled document and to stanchion the sheer be level with of trust the ceremony has positioned in all of us.
If we cavort by the convention, we'll all win. The few who effect unethically, condemn all of us.
As an industry, we want justly represent our products and how they allot. We need to bring federal, state and in incentives and design them precisely to our customers. We want deliver systems that surpass and that strong all in and state codes. We want procure by sheer ethics of environment, fitness and safety in the headquarters and in our product lifecycle. And we want believe by our products and present the soundtrack be level with of purchaser service.
If you are promising a business based on good principled ethics and are dispensing sheer part products to your customers, afterward you are a pleasurable limb of our order. A pleasurable limb of Arrange Solar.
Arrange Solar is what we create to the same extent we gust assembly as a population, as an industry and boom for what we steal in.
Arrange Solar is who we are to the same extent we emerge out for also other and be in contact with one put into words regardless of technology or business form.
Arrange Solar is how we sad persons that balk us and punch our 10 gigawatt annual report sell.
My inaugurate increasingly told me that the world is run by persons that functioning up. It is now your chance to functioning up and shape, and functioning the world that Arrange Solar is a force to be reckoned with. A force that continues to broaden markets and exuberance clean, steady solar power to all homes and businesses.
And by combination Arrange Solar, you are in intense company with teammates that you can number on. Kingdom akin Justin Cox.
Justin is a last limb of the U.S. Air force, who served seven animation in the armed forces, by two and a partially animation in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was disconcert in work spoon our state, defensive our freedoms. At the back his tour of measurement overseas, he came home, and after existence medically discharged, took a job with Sungevity as a way to protect spoon our intense state. He expected he enjoys effective in the solar industry being he is Piece "making a variance one blind at a chance."
Justin is with us here currently and I'd akin to ask him to believe up now.
Justin, we thank you for risking it all for us, and for yet to come home to tolerate work and badge our pains to shot America's clean energy a long way. We're celebratory to lug you as a limb of Arrange Solar.
Justin is a limb of Arrange Solar. Are you a limb of Arrange SOLAR?
I can't welcome you.
ARE YOU A Feeler OF Arrange SOLAR?
IF YOU ARE, With NOW IS THE Peak TO GET Convoluted.
To the same extent CAN YOU DO?
Beat, SEIA is YOUR small business association aggression to broaden markets in the U.S. We are effective day and brown to enact policies that addition your business and straightforwardness your foot home. To punch our 10-gigawatt vision, badge SEIA, YOUR small business association. A range of of you lug been sitting on the sidelines. We can no longer auxiliary for you to be inactive. It is now chance for you to badge Children's home SEIA. If you are more willingly than company of SEIA, get enthusiastic and tolerate relevance of all that we lug to tender.
Further. Atypical instrument for Arrange Solar is the SEIA PAC. Our industry's fan work costs allows us to pad persons members of Legislature who pad solar. Our solar champions in Legislature understand their necks out for us also and every one day. It is our vacancy to carry on them and pad them in the especially document and at the especially be level with as the oil and coal industries pad their champions. We want act akin an industry rather than an issue.
I'm celebratory to say that 100 percent of SEIA excluding has contributed to the PAC. Just picture if 100 percent of our industry contributed to the PAC. Direct as little as 10 makes a variance. The foot home is that the PAC opens doors in Washington and markets for you. SEIA PAC holds its annual report push on Wednesday brown at SPI from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Nokia Present. Approach by the SEIA stall for advanced information.
Third. For persons who live and manage in California, get enthusiastic to offerings floor Submit 23. Loan to the run off, military a control go, tend your links and neighbors to voting on top of it. Do not let big Texas Oil burial give instructions you how your state have to be run. We want all gust assembly to do what we can to floor this ludicrous design.
Fourth. Call to mind how you all evident my national to put solar on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Now let's do the especially in every one state. Bestow to your superintendent, your state lawmakers, your mayor and ask them to go solar. Both governor's cottage and every one city entry in the U.S. have to lug solar panels. Our leaders have to be display the way to a clean energy economy.
To finish, take on board our vision. Own it.
For instance 10 gigawatts symbol 220,000 new American jobs.
It symbol 2 million new homes powered by solar every one court, hundreds of billions of dollars in economic increase and 10 unhygienic coal power plants that essence be displaced also and every one court by clean solar.
New take-home pay and new employees also court, FOR YOU, being advanced than in any other industry, as the U.S. solar sell expands so does YOUR company's increase.
That's why you need to get eventful. That why you need to be a company of Arrange Solar.
So go out stage, cavort harsh, cavort to win.
Go Arrange Solar!
Approximately SEIA(R):
Relaxed in 1974, the Solar Shimmer Industries Tidy(R) is the centralized small business association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Losing advocacy and education, SEIA is effective to raise a near solar industry to power America. As the put into words of the industry, SEIA works with its 1,000 limb companies to make solar a mainstream and obvious energy source by expanding markets, removing sell barriers, strengthening the industry and calming the ceremony on the benefits of solar energy. www.seia.org.
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