How California Can Lead the Clean Tech Revolution

Presentation by Steve Westly

September 23, 2010

Los Angeles, CA

The problem is huge

The problem is huge

* c/o USGS – 22 Feb 2010

Map shows in blue the ice extent in 1947 between Charcot Island and the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The red line shows the ice shelf edge in 2009.*

The problem is getting worse

* Harvard Public Health study

83 mm Chinese will die of lung disease in next 25 yrs*

It’s a global problem

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Help is on the way: public sector

Help is on the way: private sector

A smart place to invest

Clean tech investing: leading innovation

$1.99bn

$9.22bn

Electric cars

Synthetic fuel

500 acres of solar in West Palm Beach

New innovations

Multi-billion-dollar companies

Massive deployments

3 GW

Clean tech is a global phenomenon

220 MW

16,000 MW

Even the…

China: partners or competitors?

• Increased avg. MPG to 42 (over US’s 39)

• Planting 150,000 sq. mi. of trees

• Established 50% feed in tariff for wind

• Committed to 20% renewable by 2020

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