Building Californias

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Building Californias Clean Energy Economy
Professor Daniel M. Kammen Director, Renewable
and Appropriate Energy Laboratory Energy and
Resources Group Goldman School of Public
Policy Department of Nuclear Engineering Universit
y of California, Berkeley California Climate
Summit, February 4, 2005
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The Facts of Life (for now)

• What we have
• Energy is the largest industry on the planet, by
  far
• The U. S. spends 1 billion per day on fuel, 60
  imported
• We are running out of atmosphere faster than we
  are out of oil
• Federal investments in clean energy are
  sporadic, fickle
• What we know
• We are hiding from the true costs of our current
  energy economy
• Large changes are needed, but tool exist to make
  this happen.

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Source DOE, Clean Energy Futures (2000)
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Federal RD Policy Can be Very Effective(All
sectors of the U. S. Economy)
Patents Granted (thousands)
RD Spending (billions)
R. Margolis and D. Kammen (1999) Science, 285,
pages 690 - 692
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The Same Funding-Patent Correlation But Now for
Energy Only
Patents Granted (thousands)
RD Spending (billions)
R. Margolis and D. Kammen (1999) Science, 285,
690 - 692.
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Average in Berkeley
Residential Electricity Use (kWh/capita, 1960 -
2000)
Energy Star Home
Average Dane
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California Energy Leadership

• POLICIES
• Cleanest cars (cleaner internal combustion
  hybrids)
• Cleanest electric utilities
• Most advanced building codes (Title 24)
• RESULT
• 35 less carbon/output, billions in energy
  savings, technological leadership
• NEW INNOVATIONS
• Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (best of 13
  states)
• Worlds First Vehicle CO2 reduction bill
• Murray Solar Homes Bill
• Hydrogen Highway Initiative

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Source PowerLight Corp
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Efficiency AFTER AND BEFORE New
T-5s (left) Old incandescets
(right)
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• Widespread use of current best-available
  technology demand stabilization
• Best current innovation rates energy efficiency
  alone beats Kyoto

Energy Efficiency Futures
Kammen Ling, in press
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State Renewables Portfolio Standards and Mandates
16 States
NY 25 by 2020
11/2/04
CA 20 by 2017
HI 20 by 2020

• Renewable energy goals established in Illinois
  and Minnesota
• RPS being considered in many other states (e.g.,
  VT, WA) potentially revised in others (ME, PA,
  WI) and national RPS is being discussed (by some)

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• Study reviews
• 13 studies of
• job creation
• Message
• energy
• efficiency and
• renewables
• create large
• numbers of
• high quality
• jobs

Report available at
http//socrates.berkeley.edu/rael/papers.html
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Greenhouse Gas Comparison FCVs vs. ICE/Hybrid
Vehicles
Source Bevilacqua-Knight, 2001
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Opportunities

• Support the Murray Solar Home bill
• Misinformation and uncertainly surround the
  net-metering
• provisions
• Accelerate the CA Renewable Energy Portfolio
  Standard
• My laboratory has recently completed analysis of
  the job
• creation impacts of accelerating or expanding
  the CA RPS
• Develop a Proposition 71 type energy
  initiative
• Enact carbon cap trade work with western
  states,
• northeast US (RGGI), UK