Steve Westly, Managing Partner, The Westly Group

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

An alternate universe