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I don't know what she's wearing But five will get you ten the outfit silk and covers her body like a cellophane I met her about two weeks ago right after she married the guy I work for Henry Grover He owns a lumber yard just outside of town. He'd been working hard and figured he was ripe for a vacation He hired me to manage the place while I was away. I put him on a train one night didn't hear from him for two months I was sorry to hear from him then I'd put a few improvements in and the take was making me forget I ever had any money troubles. I got a postcard saying he'd met a nice babe and married it. I Tossed off a couple of drinks in honor of the occasion and relaxed I figured she'd talk him into staying in the city and I could buy the shop That was before I met her I've never been so wrong Welcome home Henry. Good to see you again boy. Well here. She is This is George Bellic. George had been managing the office for me. Hello manager. Hi here Henry. Let me help you with those bags Oh, thanks Business I told me all about the place some of the things I got in mind pretty good Yes, you'll be building that new house now Henry. Oh, not this year thinking about painting the old room. Oh, I have a few ideas too You know and pretty good one too. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the place didn't pick up and make some money I wouldn't be surprised. I Don't suppose you'll be staying on now Henry's back. Will you George? Oh, of course. He'll be staying. I don't know I haven't thought much about it Lumberyard doesn't need three managers. Well, we're really need to when two is one that's different That's right George one and one makes one, you know That's when three's a crowd you Come on in Want some coffee? Yeah, thanks Thought you were with Henry. He's over in the warehouse Alone. Yeah, I Don't think you're glad to see you George. Why should I be my name's on your check your husband's name Listen there. Tell me something. Will you like what like how come you two got married? Love it hits you fast Sometimes planning to be with him long No The top-heavy contest and he's outclassed. That's nothing to me. That's good How'd you happen to bring him back here? Why didn't you keep him at home? I felt like a chain He bailed you out. Yeah Out of a dance hall. I suppose you just sold the tickets Not exactly Okay Okay slave to Queen how does it feel? Let me ask you one What are you going to do for a job now manage this lumber business? No, you're not you don't own it Don't believe everything you read on a piece of paper. I own it And there's no room for you. You know your new husband's in for a kind of a surprise What kind of surprise? I mean when he hits the warehouse What about it? There's a room over in the back part One of the walls is holding up a row of slot machines a couple of tables on the floor that were made for check Dambling that's right Henry didn't mention that that's the surprise Well, I guess I don't have to worry any about getting rid of you Henry'll take care of that you think so How's business in the back room like a girly show on Iwo Jima? Where's the money in the bank your bank my bank? Hey George, can I see you a minute sure Henry come on in here? Why don't you? Well, I'd rather handle this alone, honey. You don't mind. Come on George. Oh, you told me I could help you Now something's come up and you're shutting me out of it. There's nothing to do with that This is something new you may as well let her in on it. She knows all about it. Anyway, you told her sure I figured I was telling the manager one and one makes one remember All right George I Left you to run a lumberyard. I didn't want any improvements Especially I didn't want any improvements like I just saw over there dice table slot machines. I don't know what all I Don't see how you moved it all in two months two days, but you're right. It wasn't easy All right, I came back. I thought we'd all work together. There's a place for you here And I'll go on paying you the same salary Oh Wouldn't be much compared to what you've been making on the side that is business has been pretty good up till now Well, and it's it's all over. This is goodbye. I'm sorry no easy money for you out when it's breaking the law You can stay on here tonight, but in the morning get those machines and dice table together and get out They're not going any place and neither am I but you're breaking the law tomorrow morning I'm throwing out all that stuff where you're gonna throw it out anywhere. I I don't know I don't care boyer if you throw it outside and leave it somebody you'll see it and talk to the police If you try and have it moved out, I'll call them myself Anyway, you look at it. They're going to want the owner of this place for gambling and you're the owner George You bought the stuff. I I didn't know anything about it. I don't even know where you got it I've been away. I can prove that I you don't scare me in your name I bought the stuff and in your name. I ran the place. I'm just a hired man working here They'll want the boy and you're the boy just like always Henry Well, then you're closing down tomorrow if I can't run a decent shop.  I gave you a job and you were glad to get it What's got into you anyway? He found a way to make some money. Yeah a lot of money The take is good here when I got your postcard I thought I'd seen the last of you and we've got to pay you for the place and let it go with that How about it? What's the price? No price. I'm not selling to you or anybody else. How about 15,000 dollars in cash? Sure cash You haven't saved that much in this place in two months. I'll get the money got about 8,000 now couple of months I'll have the rest. I wouldn't trust you for a three-cent stamp. Never mind Murray, honey Look, I'm not selling George and that's the end of it and we're partners not in anything like this We're not you will like it fine when the money starts coming in. I don't want anything to do it Okay, you won't have anything to do with it. You take care of the lumber business. I'll handle the rest I told you now for the last time We don't want any trouble with the police. There's gonna be any trouble with the police the way he tells it There is He's got us over a barrel. I've been clear and pretty near a thousand bucks a week There isn't much I wouldn't do for that kind of money. We better think it over, honey We better think over what to do. Well, I have the idea think it over Think it over both of you The minute I saw her I knew that was the way I was going to have to play it I knew I wouldn't get far with him, but with her it was different There wasn't much I wouldn't do for that kind of money There wasn't anything she wouldn't do. I knew I'd planted the seed and I knew how it had grown I knew how she'd go to work on him that night almost as though I'd been in the room Henry What are you gonna do about George? Oh, I don't know, honey. He's a good man Must be in with bad crowd. That's all. Yeah, that's likely He's played the angle so long. They're round. I like George. That's why I hired him if he's in with the wrong bunch Oh, that's all right. He'll come out of it.  I Don't know what to say you said yourself. He had You could take him up on it on what his proposition At least for a while, but I you could pretend to oh, no, I don't like that Anyway, where would that get you? It'd get you a 50-50 cut on a thousand dollars a week in the meantime No, Marie. I don't want it. I don't want any part of you heard what he said He said he'd do anything for that kind of money. Oh, he didn't mean anything. No, I Know what I'd do I'd put a bullet in his head on a Marie Don't talk that way that isn't even funny. What are you gonna do? Let him take over your business right up from under your nose He's a gambler and a thief Henry if you called him on it if you had it out with him and he started anything it'd be self-defense But no jury in the world would hold you on it. What are you talking about? I'm telling you.  All right. All right. Don't See what happens. I wish I knew what was gonna happen. Well, I'll tell you you want to know Oh, just let me try to think can't you think what are you supposed he's thinking about? Well, he said I know what he said Listen to me Henry. It's him or you don't you see that? Freeze a crowd. That's what he's thinking about Murder Yeah, I knew pretty much what they were talking about in there. I knew this dame pretty well It only needed a day of knowing her to know that a word like murder was part of her natural born vocabulary To know that she could cut a guy's throat and think no more of it and clip in one of her fingernails. I Didn't know just then who was going to get murdered. I found out Auto light is bringing you Ronald Reagan in one and one's alone some tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspends. Hey, hello. I saw lots of kangaroos in Australia, too Why their tails are you don't say why reming gesture the kangaroos tail is as unique in the animal world as the white gap Auto light resistor is in the spark plug world It's the newest addition to the complete line of regular transport aviation Resistor marine and model spark plugs ignition engineered by auto light. 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I said you should see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer tomorrow Have him replace worn out spark plugs with ignition engineered auto light spark plugs whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type You'll be right because you're always right with auto light and now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star Ronald Reagan with Kathy Lewis in one and one's a lonesome a tale well Calculated to keep you in The night after Henry and his new wife came home I didn't open up the back room in the warehouse I've put in the new table and counted out the profits for the week I took a fair share over to Grover, but he read negative all the way When he turned down that money Marie tried on a face. She must have been saving for Jack the Ripper She knew he wasn't going to change his mind She could see I was set the pocket big money on a four-hour schedule in the back room While their take after 16 hours in the lumber yard would look like a piggy bank night before Christmas. I Said good night and left them alone to what promised to be a rotten evening for both. I Went over to the garage where I'd fixed myself up a little cut. I was mixing the paint We were using on the house the next day, but I hadn't been at it more than half an hour when I had a visitor This is a surprise. I I Broke my fingernail Thought you might have a nail clipper See it Isn't it pretty? Yeah Do you have one what a nail clipper on your key chain, maybe? Sure here Wait, let me do it for you Hmm long and pointed like a pussycat. They can scratch too Like them sure Hey, y'all, what'll I do with the victim keep it for souvenir you mind my coming to see you Not if your husband doesn't he doesn't know I'm here. He will if he thinks real hard. I don't care. I Wanted to see you need more light. No Henry's not strong, you know, well, he wasn't wearing a lion skin when you married him It all happened so fast and I wanted to get out of that dance hall. Oh, yeah the dance hall Well, that's the price of love or have you changed your mind? Yeah, I changed my mind. That's easy to do when it's all over Is it all over you married him?  I Like you I like it here. I don't want to leave. I don't want to go anywhere I don't want my head turning into a home for your husband's bullets This the paint you're using tomorrow. Yeah, you're healthy husband and I Using ladders. No, we'll swing a couple of platforms on pulleys with ropes. Why want to learn to paint? No, thanks I'm worried about Henry up on one of those things He's not as strong as you are. Yeah, I know Having to fall off. He might be hurt. He fell on the cement drive might break his neck. That's right Do the ropes ever break not often enough to make the odds good for betting Could you make them break? Huh? Could you fix the ropes so they'd break when he got to the top not on your life?  How long do you think you'll take that gambling keep talking?  I Got the idea when he told me about a fellow doing the same thing who fell and was killed If anything like that ever happened to him, he said I wouldn't have to worry Everything was taken care of why do you cut me in I told you Because I like you and because you couldn't cut me out Can you fix the rope so it'll break when you want it to no But I could fix it so it would break It have to be somebody else here a witness to see it was an accident. I already thought of that Friend of his Jim Brandon you figured every angle haven't you you'll get your chance Okay, the rope will break get it fixed up tonight Okay, well you leave it every two platforms one for me one for him I'll take them both over to the house tonight before I go to bed Put the one for Henry by the office put yours by the house Yeah, I don't want you to be around tomorrow and Henry and Brandon set him up that way nobody can say that you had anything to do with it Don't worry. We won't have any trouble We better not I'm risking a lot for you. I Won't forget it, baby. Don't This is what the movies call love You like it, I'm getting to like it. It's easy learning. I hope I won't have to forget. I'll worry about that Let's talk some more you got more to say Lots more things are gonna be different around here after tomorrow Yeah, that's right Just you and me and the back room goldmine Think we'll make you happy. I'm willing to take a chance I better be getting back to house sure it's Grover's last night Good night, Georgie. Don't disappoint me. Is that hard? Well, I had gloves with me when I came in here. You did here. They are oh Well, I think I'll keep them What's the idea I want a souvenir Not going anywhere. Maybe I'll tuck them under my pillow. This is what the movies call love After she left I sat there thinking those gloves didn't help me clear my head And it's not like the powder room in the club Paris. I Like the way she handled Grover sure the kid was bright the plan looked sure fire with a payoff in fancy living written especially for happy homes I Strung together a couple of ropes and a pulley on two wooden boards and called it a platform The next one took more time. I Spent a few minutes burning the rope where it had rest on the pulley when the platform was up near the top I pulled it apart a little bit fingers made sure it wouldn't hold much weight for long Fixed it just the way I wanted it and I slipped it through the pulley anchored it on the boards and had myself another Platform different from the first but looking just the same I put the good one by the house and the other next to the shop By the time I was through it was nearly daylight lay down in the cut the next thing. I knew she was shaking me come on Come on. Wake up. Come on. They're ready to start whoo-hoo him and his pal. They're out there now waiting for you. Oh, oh, yeah Where are they out in the yard the platforms? Yeah, they've already got him set up Okay, it won't be long now, baby.   I burned it? Nobody'll notice that I pulled it apart a little just enough to hold it together while he's getting to the top Well, let Brandon pull you both up. Nobody has to pull us both up We can lift our own is a rope from the pulley that'll hoist or lower. Okay Come on a few minutes and you'll be the new owner around here, and I'll be talking about Mary and my boss Yeah That's right, you know Few minutes things will be swell. Which one of them picked up the rope by the shop Brandon his pal Then it's on the right side of the drive. That's the bad one. Are you sure sure? That's the one for Henry Wonder how long it takes to fall three stories three maybe four seconds. I don't know When the rope breaks you count it. I'll be busy trying to look surprised I want Brandon to go into town telling everybody about the accident we had out here. Don't overdo it You're no actor.  That's a good idea matter of fact I'm gonna make a habit George you bring the paint. Oh Yeah, Henry right here. Oh, you know Jim Brandon. Don't you yeah, we met hi at George. Oh, Mr. Clover. Oh, well might as well get going all this waiting around I've kind of lost the mood for painting. It's like gambling Henry once you begin You feel like you never belong anywhere else. Yeah George I got a couple of things. I want to talk to you You've been talking about nobody being ready to paint now. We're all ready. So let's paint all right All right, but when we finish George come over to the house. I want to talk with you sure Henry Maybe I was a little hasty last night right after we get through. I'll be waiting for you George must think he's a pretty fast painter. You'll be all finished in the house before you get down over the platform Henry we'll see about that I've done my share of painting too. You'll have to jump some to beat me George.  That's right. Mrs. Groban either of them can paint well enough to make this old place look any better I don't know. I was telling Henry this morning this time. He bought a new house for his pretty new wife Oh, thank you, Mr. Brandon But as long as we have this house and the paints right here, we may as well go ahead and paint Don't you say oh sure. Oh, you're right honey. Well, come on George. Let's get going They help me in there. No, thanks. We can pull ourselves up. Can't we George? Yeah, that's right Come on. Let's stand over here out of the way. Mr. Brandon. I want to watch sure thing You ever seen house painting before? Oh, yeah, yeah Never anything quite like this. Yeah. Well, they're pretty good Is it gonna hold Just watching Now you've seen how it's done. You come on up in the sky. You're right with you Henry Hey Brandon When I get to the top inside this room to the bucket of paint, pass it up. Right Henry Keep pulling George. He's beating you up there. Hey, he does it George. That's my elevator Don't worry about me. You got your own problems. Okay, Jim, pass up the paint. You ready to do George? Hey Hey, I think the rope was slipping on the pulley. I don't feel anything. I don't see anything wrong with the pulley Like I told you I'm on a trip, but it's no honeymoon couple of hours ago a hundred and seventy pounds of Henry Grover hit the cement driveway Then I got the surprise of my life. It lasted just two seconds before I hit two I thought I was as safe as a glass of water But I was just another fall guy because both platforms gave way I'd never thought of that Two partners make more dough than three But one owner without a partner makes the most No, I didn't think of that But I had thought of a couple of others just in case the fingernail for instance They gave me maybe half a day to live so I told it to the cops Almost the way it happened And when I got through I didn't even have to hint at those other couple of ankles they found it out all by themselves And then they brought in Marie Skippet baby they know all about know all about what my name is Williams lieutenant homicide These York gloves Mrs. Grover Yes, we found them in sort of a funny place in the tool shed where all those painting platforms were fixed up Well, I don't see how that did you know those ropes were burned and frayed Somebody pulled them part and burned them George did it was all his idea Funny guy wonder bump himself off. Let me see your hands Nice hands nice nails What am's broke off, huh? Whatever we found it in the rope where somebody pulled it apart We want you for murder. 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My name is Rebecca blood. I have the good fortune to be involved in this year's expo and policy forum I'm delighted to be in front of you today and add my welcome. Thank you for taking time out of your lunch schedule to join us It's my privilege to be here in front of one of my favorite topics panels renewables renewable trends I'm a longtime advocate both personally and professionally working on these issues. I have a big piece of my heart that belongs to the hydro power community and But with that we work together as a village in this town So I'm pleased to have with us today some outstanding representatives from the renewable energy sector I will introduce them and start on my left and have them give us less than 10 minutes Maybe 10 minutes max Overview of what's going on in their sector So we have Jeff Leahy to my far left. He's the deputy executive director for the National Hydro Power Association Here in town. We have Bill Hamlin. He's with the is the energy policy advisor for the Canadian Hydro Power Association To my immediate right. We have Mona Mona Khalil with the US Geological Survey Brie Ram to her right now represents as vice president for federal affairs the American Wind Energy Association and to her right my far right is Christopher Mansour VP federal affairs for the solar energy Industries Association so with that Jeff you can sit and speak or stand and talk So I just want to give you all a very quick introduction into the National Hydro Power Association We have over 230 members across the country But hydro is multiple technologies I think everybody sort of thinks of conventional hydro when they think hydro power, but we also represent pump storage hydro power, which is the largest Energy storage technology in the US in the world today. We also represent small hydro power projects like conduit in hydro power As well as marine energy and the new energy Up there we go the new wave and tidal Technologies as well. So all of that together. However, you generate power from water. We represent you What is our role? It's to create a better policy environment and that includes regulatory tax Market policy to support the development of new projects, but also to preserve and to reinvest in the existing System that we have particularly in the hydro side as we're still looking to commercialize some of the newer technologies We see in marine energy and others So I'm going to talk about these but I would also want to put point out from the very beginning particularly for the marine energy technologies and some of the new technologies that are happening in conventional hydro that Appropriations in support for DOE's R&D Budget is a critical issue as many of these projects and devices are in sort of their first or second stages and haven't yet gotten to Commercialization so I just wanted to put that out there up front We've talked a little bit about that in the hall some of the members of Congress the importance of preserving The R&D budgets for the Department of Energy and other agencies that work to support those initiatives So what is the future of the trend for hydro over the last I'd say about 10 years We've seen a modest incremental growth in the hydropower industry. We've added about 2,000 megawatts Of capacity over the course of the last 10 years So basically it's been flat with a modest increase But the Department of Energy and others when they've looked at the potential opportunity in our sector have seen as much as 50 gigawatts By 2050 if the right policies are put in place and we see that potential across all of the sectors So I won't go into specifically about how that all breaks down But if you were to Google hydropower vision report that would come up and it's sort of the Bible of the hydropower industry now It's a and I think there are very few people who have read all 543 pages of it But if you're looking for any sort of fact Information about the hydropower industry, I really would direct you to that document So we have all of this potential that's out there, you know, only 3% of dams have hydropower on them We have these new technologies We have new pump storage projects that are trying to be built but what are the challenges that we're facing as an industry and you know I'm here to say that those challenges are significant and for some sectors of the industry You know, they really are facing a crisis point with a lack of policy support for hydro that is comparable to that for other Industries that my colleagues on this panel represent We all know the electricity sector is a highly competitive sector and The policies in place or the lack thereof for hydro is really making it almost impossible for my industry to compete economically And to be an option that is a viable option not only for new developers But even for the preservation of existing assets So I'm briefly going to discuss some of these and I will try to be very brief regulatory We need hydro is the only renewable resource that is our regulator is the federal government the federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Many other of the federal resource agencies participate in that licensing process and that process along with project construction can easily take 8 to 10 years That is a tremendous amount of time and is not in the same Scale as other resources and I'm we're not saying it should be equal There are some differences for hydropower that that need to be taken into account But when you're looking at 8 to 10 years versus 18 months to 24 months That alone drives investment to other resources in a way from hydropower even though the projects make a lot of economic sense So in the long run so we need a shorter better coordinated and less costly licensing process And you know, I'm happy to report this bipartisan legislation out there in both the House and the Senate that has made strides That we're working on to hopefully see Enacted tax policy the hydro and marine energy tax credits have expired again Some of my colleagues have been lucky their industries have long-term extensions But we need to have those tax credits expired if we're going to be able to compete again In in the marketplace and and for pump storage We're also working and many of my colleagues here are also working on this as well And energy storage tax credit currently there is no tax credit on the federal policy side To support energy storage. We would like to see that enacted in in pump storage included Market policy hydro is a flexible base load resource But in the markets we need hydro and pump storage to be first recognized and second compensated for the grid Reliability services and resiliency services that it brings That is not always happening and again It's just yet another benefit that when you stack up all of these issues that are not getting recognized Compensated for or treated differently than other resources Really puts us at a disadvantage and lastly with regards to policy I want to talk about state policies and just say hydro is not always recognized fully as a renewable energy resource yet It is NHA commissioned the Browell group last year to look at this and they looked at state policies Particularly state RPS policies and their analysis found that the hydro industry is currently missing out on 1.5 billion dollars worth of revenue Or or value Annually because of their disparate treatment under state renewable portfolio standards. So Again, it just sort of highlights how we're just at a different place Than than other resources. So to wrap up, you know Our challenge NHA's challenge and the challenge that we are making to Congress and the administration and the state policymakers is how do we reevaluate and amend some of these policies to Equal out some of these disparities that have been sort of baked into those policies over the course of the last 20 to 30 years the grid has changed tremendously and our Energy portfolio has changed tremendously over the last 20 to 30 years. I would say that it's changed for the better But at the same time that also it is different And so I think we need to look back and look at some of those policies with a different framework And a different in a different lens where we are today versus where we were 20 or 30 years ago With that I will stop and I will turn it over to my colleagues. Thank you. Hi there, Bill Hamlin from Canadian Hyder Power Association where Industry Association representing primarily the Canadian Canadian generators volume on Start with a couple of facts about Canadian Hyder Power Hyder Power is the leading form of electricity in Canada makes up about 60 percent of electricity generation The North American Electrical grid is highly integrated Canadian utilities are Fully integrated that system and it's highly mutual mutually beneficial to both sides like Is that better okay, sorry Electricity flows both ways delivering benefits on both sides of the border But Canada is a net exporter to the United States and in fact we supply 1% of the overall electricity demand in the US small percentage but a small percentage of a very big number and Our significance is is much more important in several border states where we make up a much more significant portion of Generation base Hyder Power is still under development Development in Canada several projects are underway In British Columbia on the West Coast site. See is 1100 megawatt plant It's coming online in 2024 The kiosk generating station in Manitoba almost 700 megawatts in 2021 muskrat falls in Newfoundland and Labrador on the far eastern coast is Going to deliver 824 megawatts starting in 2019 so there's a lot still underway in Canada in terms of greenfield development and There's an enormous potential still still left Canada has the technical potential to double It's already big Canadian Hyder power Installed capacity Let me jump for a minute to the Canadian climate change context, which is Considerably different than in the United States right now Canada remains committed to the Paris Agreement That requires us to reduce our emissions 30% by 2030 We're already 80% Non-emitting in Canada Hydro makes up about 60% of generation Nuclear wind and solar make up another 20% so But Canada has an objective to go beyond that 80% to 90% non-emitting by 2030 Many really regulations are already put in place, but many more are being developed And that includes a carbon pricing system Nationally some provinces already have carbon pricing systems this national national program It's going to start delivering a price ten dollars a ton across the economy In by the end of this year and Go up ten dollars a year To reach 50 dollars a ton by 2022, so it's a significant program Canada's also got a strategy towards meeting Its long-term mid-century goals and that's to reduce 80% by 80% In 2050 and that's based on three pillars increasing energy efficiency Electricity becoming a hundred percent non-emitting and Electrification of much of the economy now those pillars aren't unusual though Those are the those are the things that show up in every deep decarbonization study But it And that kind of strategy necessitates the need for much more hydro much more wind much more solar in Canada the renewable associations are working together closely, so the Hyderpower Association Solar Industry Association Wind Energy Association and marine renewables are all working together to Share that vision long-term vision That not emitting electricity can meet the majority of society's needs by the mid-century We're working together because we recognize the synergies Wind and solar are decree are increasingly delivering low-cost energy But coupled with hydro you get the reliability the flexibility and the energy storage If you pair those resources together, you can essentially deliver a system. That's a hundred percent renewable a good example of How wind and hydro are working together is the case study for manitoba hydro in Minnesota power These companies recognize the need for more renewables More energy storage and a stronger grid Minnesota powers transformational Plan involves moving from being predominantly a coal Company to being one that's 60 66% renewable And that involves a large wind farm in North Dakota and New hydro development in manitoba It also requires transmission and energy storage and manitoba hydros reservoirs Provide that storage and balancing of the system enabling much Much higher penetrations of wind as as Jeff was saying Hyderpower provides many grid services Firmness of supply seasonal storage that can be really important for Solar and northern regions where there's more solar available in the summer and less in the Less in the winter multi-week storage day-to-day storage Storage within the day that allows you to shift Solar production from the daytime to to be used at night and Right down to the second-by-second minute-by-minute Flexibility that enhances system regulation load following and system stability. The problem is As as Jeff pointed out There's there's no real incentives for those kind of services in today's marketplace and as we move to higher penetrations of Intermittent renewables we need to start building in those incentives Storage in perspective The output of Tesla's huge giga factory is Producing between 35 and 50 gigawatt hours of year of battery storage Huge amount But if you compare that with the energy storage, it's already provided in one province in Canada The reservoirs can hold water and effectively act as a battery it would take More than four thousand five hundred years of full production from the giga factory to produce the same amount of storage is already Available in that one Canadian province so the challenge is to produce the the the market signals that Start leading the resources that we have to deliver those services we we need Conclusions we have the opportunity to work together towards a future Electricity system that's affordable reliable secure and virtually free of emissions Hyderpower can enable that future But to get there we need policies to discourage emissions and encourage non-emitting resources We need more transmission and We need new and enhanced market mechanisms that reward flexibility energy storage and other new System services that will be required Thank you. I'll stand up just to get the change to get the blood moving So, thank you. My name is Mona Khalil. I'm with the US Geological Survey. It's great to be here today I wanted to thank ESI and a sustainable energy coalition as well as the caucus for having us here today Some of you may not be familiar with USGS I'll quickly go over a little bit of what we do who we are we're a federal agency Unlike my colleagues here today We work for the Department of the Interior. We are their science agency and that's kind of where we leave it We don't do any policy or regulatory decisions, but we hope that our science can inform those decisions One role that we play for the Department of the Interior is what's called the trust responsibilities So that's where DOI is charged by law to manage And protect species on public lands Species that are conserved under or protected under a variety of acts and so USGS helps with that function and Because energy projects can be built on public lands and they can also impact Species that are under protection We become involved as a science agency that can help managers that that manage these lands and and protected species By making decisions regarding permitting and siding of energy facilities. So putting that in context for today the trends The trends would be maybe greater if there was less impact to wildlife to fish from renewable energy And this is one area that we're really trying to tackle is how do we remove that barrier to more deployment? so this makes our Research portfolio Relatively heavy in looking at energy impacts so Renewable energy has been getting great Great progress as you know and you can actually check this out in one of our maps that maps turbine Deployment across the country. They're now something like 40 54,000 turbines potentially more on the landscape So this is providing great benefits. There's there's no question about that However, the impact to wildlife still largely remains and this is from both Wind turbines from hydropower development even though there's been a lot of effort to allow for fish passage There's room for improvement So as a science agency with a very broad biological portfolio and in addition to all our hazards and water and Volcano work that you know probably know about It be it does become our job to also apply a rigorous and scientific process to understand the risks that are associated with energy development Some of this energy development is very very new and so we don't fully understand those risks yet and and What I want to convey to you today is that essentially today and in the In our history, we are focused on helping find win-win solutions for both natural resource conservation And also for meeting Society's needs for energy that need keeps growing. So that's not something that we'll ever escape. It seems But also I want to mention that Department of Energy is a very big Collaborative of ours and by joining forces. We're able to do some very Innovative research and I'll give some examples of what it is that we're doing with DOE But to give you again a little bit more context, I'm speaking here specifically about wildlife about fish You may be asking aren't there bigger issues, you know, there's You you just pointed out a bunch of new issues, but working in this field and speaking with energy companies I am seeing that Impacts to birds bats fish are a hurdle and if we can reduce those we could have more deployment so There are other factors that come into play with wildlife They're an unruly bunch. We can't seem to tell them where to go or not to go And there are diseases that are impacting their population such as for bats. It's what white nose syndrome, which is Having a lot of impacts on their population And so this is one thing that we're trying to study is how big of a problem Is energy development relatives to some other factors? so The good news is there are technologies and operational practices that can minimize impacts from renewable energy But we're still not where we'd like to be And this is where USGS can help So I'll run through a couple of examples of research that's relatively new that's ongoing We don't have results yet, but this is sort of the nature of USGS is that as soon as we Answer one question so we move on to the next one and work hard to bring the rigor of science to To new questions and new solutions So I assume you all know where we do maps so I'll start with our this is like an old-fashioned very good map to do hiking with and probably other things but our State of the science state of the art maps are now very interactive and I invite you to check out our newest map that Shows wind turbine distributions across the country and we worked with we uh to put this together as well as DOE Where you can see all the distribution of turbines why this is good well other than For your own curiosity of where the turbines are it also helps resource managers Figure out they can download this information and they could see how that might overlap with migratory routes for example People are very interested where ungulates Spend their spring and summer and how they get between those two and so you can see whether they will be crossing Facilities along the way and you can also use that information To potentially site projects in certain areas that are not overlapping with wildlife So again, I encourage you to check that out What we're spending a lot of our research effort on is to specifically figure out the overlap where Energy is the potential is so we know where the wind blows or Where there's good water flow or there's a lot of Sun But also to figure out where species are on the landscape and where they are not and we think that if we can provide that kind Of information to decision-makers they will be able to they'll have better information to make decisions with where Facilities can be placed I'll give you an example of the California Condor This is a species that was brought back from the brink of extinction by the fish and wildlife service and Technology is so good now that we can monitor Every move basically of the condor and so we did a study recently with fish and wildlife service and It's a state of California to figure out what type of airspace Condors prefer and this is again for wind applications So if condors fly above wind turbines most of the time we're good If they actually share wood share space with wind then maybe we want to figure out where we don't put wind turbines and through this kind of detailed research we're able to find out that Condors do actually spend most time above the height of turbines They but they really like ridges and ridge lines And so if you want to be on the safe side and you don't want to strike down a condor You would probably want to put your facility on flatter terrain where there are much more less likely to be above Because they don't like to be stranded up up low either. So we're learning things about Certain species that we didn't know before and this is the kind of research that can help industry Make those choices One example on hydropower. We do have a whole Number of people of biologists doing fish research and fish passage research And we're very excited to start a new project with the help of DOE funding as well as the University of Massachusetts That's looking at ways to Help fish find their way when they're actually trying to make it across the dam. It turns out that once fish find a passage they can cross but Sometimes they just can't figure out where that fish passage way is and this project uses information on fish behavior and You know other techniques to enhance fish Kind of honing towards where they need to go to cross and we're very excited about that because it'll apply to a variety of species But it's still just in the testing phase. And so these these are the types of projects that We we are busy with So I'll wrap it up. I hope that these few examples illustrate a few ways how USGS can Apply biological science so our scientists how they can work with engineers To help develop and improve energy technologies that can help us achieve our goals So, thank you Hello, my name is Brie Ram. I'm with the American Wind Energy Association and I'm going to go through some facts about the latest trends in wind power and then I think I'm going to cut my comments short So we have some time for some robust Q&A So forgive me for my cheat sheet. I've only been on the job for about a month So if you have any questions afterwards, I'm probably going to take a pass The American Wind Energy Association is the trade association Um, everything I said was brilliant, by the way In the United States wind energy provided 255 million megawatts of power I'm sorry million megawatts Hours of generation to the electricity grid in 2017 supplying 6.3% of the nation's electricity The impact is more pronounced at the state level At the state level wind energy Delivers over 30% of electricity produced in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota And in 14 states wind provides more than 10% of electricity Last year the industry grew 9% adding over 7,000 megawatts of new wind power capacity Currently there are 54,000 wind turbines with the combined capacity, you got it right with the combined capacity of almost 90,000 megawatts operating in 41 states and the territories That's enough capacity to power 27 million homes On the jobs front the US wind industry powers more American homes and businesses than ever before and we employ over 105,000 people in all 50 states Today there are over 500 wind related manufacturing facilities producing components for the wind energy industry And there are about 23,000 factory jobs from from those manufacturing facilities Wind projects and manufacturing facilities are present in 70 percent Of us congressional districts including 75 percent of republican districts and 62 percent of democratic districts in the 2007 Awiya annual market report Which is actually up here and we do have some also at the awiya booth at the exhibit It has a fabulous map of all the congressional districts and where we are located, but it also has a ranking of the 10 top congressional districts for wind energy and I think it's important to note that for Congressman Arrington in texas thornberry also in texas and lucas from oklahoma Each have more wind in their districts than the entire state of california Um, you tell and these are up here and they have great maps of where the wind is and and uh section by section of Megawatts by states So utilities are investing more and wind than ever before they're signing contracts for over 33 megawatts and announcing plans to own and operate 55 megawatts of wind capacity just in 2017 alone In total there's about 84 megawatts wind power being developed and constructed under utility ownership And one of the things that we're seeing is corporations such as google amazon macrosoft and facebook and other non utility Purchasers are continuing to invest heavily in wind energy Last year non utilities signed contracts for wind totaling more than 2000 megawatts Overall non utility purchasers have procured more than 9100 megawatts of wind power I know this uh This panel is about trends and actually awiya does not make predictions But we can say um for 2018 that the outside consultants have estimated that we're looking at Deploying between 10 or i'm sorry seven and eight megawatts. Um, i'm sorry seven and eight gigawatts of wind So seven or eight gigawatts of wind likely in 2018 and that is the number from our outside consultants And so with that i'm going to cut off my remarks and turn it over to my colleague from the solar industry That's not my We're going to have the hydro guys come over here and fix it I'm christopher manson i'm the vice president for federal affairs for the solar energy industries association It's interesting many of my remarks would parallel exactly what brie said in terms of where our industry has been and where it's going in the future Um Real quickly the stats so cia is the trade association like awiya for the entire Supply chain And and sector for the solar industry in the united states everybody from the people were making the polysilicon to put into polysilicon crystal crystalline silicon cells people making the cells Manufacturing the panels manufacturing the racking systems which use a huge amount of a american like solar steel and aluminum products from here in united states To the people who are actually either sawing them on rooftops or putting them on Utility scale projects. So right now we have about 250 000 americans working in solar. This is uh Combined with the wind people and the hydro and others were by far and away Much bigger in terms of the employment impact we have on the american economy than some of the more conventional And traditional sources of of electrical generating capacity i'm speaking of that we had In 2017 solar was 30 of all new generating capacity in united states And actually in this first quarter of this year solar was 55 of all new generating capacity. So solar Uh wind natural gas and hydro are really the the the new sources of electrical generating capacity that's coming on in the united states You don't see too many Utilities looking to purchase new coal plants and right now There's only one new nuclear plant on a construction in uh in georgia So this is where the utilities themselves are looking to purchase Electricity from and purchase those kind of either purchase electricity or purchase the facilities outright One quick fact on that is that you're probably aware that many states have renewable portfolio standards Which tell the utilities in that state you need to procure 30 20 50 in some states of your electricity from renewable sources While those are important drivers for our industry and also for the wind industry as well in 2017 Utilities scale projects and our solar uh industry made up two-thirds of all solar purchasing united states Of that purchased for the utility scale that two-thirds Two-thirds of that were driven not by any state or federal or any or local requirement They were all purchased because the utilities looked at solar and said this is this is where I want to get my electricity From for whatever reason and for the most part these utility executives have you know, 20 30 year Lenses that they that they work through And they're not exactly, you know wild-eyed environmentalists or anything But when they look at where should my utility be getting its electricity from They want to know a couple things. What's the cost going to be? How well how much maintenance cost is it going to Required to be done And and can it provide me with renewable electrical output on a regular basis? And as far as from our standpoint for solar Solar is a goodbye for a lot of these utilities because they get absolute similar to what they would do with wind absolute certainty on what their fuel costs are going to be with with a natural gas generating Facility I believe it's something like 75 to 80 percent of the cost the life cycle cost 30 year life cycle cost is the cost of the fuel And while there's low natural gas prices now They have no idea what natural gas prices are going to be 10 years from now 20 years from now 30 years from now With both solar and with the wind and with hydrogen they know exactly what their fuel costs are going to be it's going to be zero And that makes a lot of utility executives very happy. So that's where we're seeing a lot of Of utilities around the united states making that decision to go with renewables to go with solar based on the pure economics of what's in the best interest of their ratepayers and their shareholders Some of that's reflected reflected in some of the activities going on so far. So right now we got about 56 Gigawatts of solar installed in the united states our estimates are that will double more than double Within adding an additional 61 gigawatts over the next five years That's over the last 10 years we've had an annual growth rate of about 59 percent per year So it's growing pretty pretty quickly on the on the housing side on the solar rooftop side In 2016 we had about a million. We hit the first million installations In the united states and that includes all kinds of solar installations So rooftop on your home or on a hardware store or a large-scale utility project So we hit the first million in in 2016 will more that will double that by the end of this year to 2 million We'll double that again to 4 million by the end of 2023. So the growth on solar is exponentially Booming both on the rooftop distributed generation sometimes it's called, but also on the utility side A couple of things we have about 9 000 companies across the united states working in solar Of that about 85 of those companies have less than 20 employees. So it's a lot of small businesses That are really driving this industry in the united states Right now we're only about 2 percent of electrical generating capacity in the united states So we're trying to catch up to our sisters and brothers and wind and hydro But but we should hit the four to five percent by that 2023 time frame I gotta look through my other fun facts here to throw at Price is done. So the other interesting fact is that In 20 and 2014 there's about 12 states where solar Hit what would be called grid parity with other sources of electrical energy capacity That means we were able to be priced in a way that utilities say, you know, it's everything's equal Should I buy solar? Should I buy wind? Should I buy hydro? Should I buy? Natural gas to reduce my electricity. So that was in 2014. We're in we were grid parity in 12 different states As of 20 at the end of 2017. We had grid parity in 27 states across the united states so It started out kind of more of a niche market you might want to say in places like, you know, california obviously where more than half of our facilities are Arizona, nevada the the logical sunshine states, but it has grown across the united states to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Massachusetts, new york New jersey all these places necessary what you wouldn't think of being big sunshine minnesota is another big market right now Texas is huge in getting bigger And so there's the growth potential Is certainly there for solar in the next in the next few years On prices alone our power production agreements are coming in at the range of between $28 per megawatt hour To $45 per megawatt hour. So that is actually In line with a lot of the other you know either wind natural gas or hydro in terms of pricing So again, that's where these utilities are making the decision on pure straight economics. What am I going to buy? Where am I going to get my electricity from? I'm running out of fun fact spring In terms of the the outlook for the next few years I think part of the problem that we've had and I think a lot of you may have heard You know we had prices dropped by 52 percent over the last five years that those price declines have kind of leveled out in 2017 primarily because of federal policy Specifically the tariffs that were imposed at the beginning of this year 30 tariffs unimported Solar panels and cells from anywhere in the in the world We're all going to be hit with a 30 tariff so that had the impact of Kind of stopping that decline in prices for panels and for cells But we still see that there will be Prices we're still going to continue to come down over the next few years with with Both the cells and the panels Which are the main component obviously for a solar system So those tariffs have had a significant impact we've had just anecdotal information so far A couple of companies have announced that they've had to cancel or freeze Billions of dollars worth of projects that ordinarily would have gone forward without those tariffs in place And so you know we remain concerned about the overall impact of these tariffs And we certainly are concerned if there's any additional tariffs put on solar Products coming in from other countries Some people are concerned why don't we make panels the united states, you know the american manufacturing Of cells and modules has always been more in the 10 to 20 to 50 megawatts per facility kind of setups other countries whether it's china Thailand malaysia They're doing gigawatts their factories produce gigawatts of cells and panels in a given year So the economy of scale is such that it's it's extremely difficult for american companies to get that kind of investment to actually Come forward and start producing cells and panels in the united states And to my way of thinking it's kind of Backward because no matter where the cells and panels come from as soon as they get in the united states They're using american sunshine to produce you know produce american electricity that's going to power american homes businesses and And vehicles so it's almost irrelevant where those panels and cells comes from So we're looking forward to continued growth I mean 2016 was a record year for for our industry primarily driven again by federal policy where the investment tax credit Was getting ready to expire At the end of 2016, we were able to get that extended in 2015 out for another five years. We were able to maintain that in the most recent tax Reform policy that just was put forward at the end of 2017 So we're very pleased with that working very closely with our friends and you know the wind industry So we're looking forward to so hopefully some more stable environment on the federal side as well as maybe even more supportive Environment policy environment on the state side and happy to take questions Thank you Looks like we have just under 10 minutes for questions I have a round of questions and we absolutely invite audience members to also provide some questions Just identify yourself, but let me go first Um, I'll give every panel member a chance to answer one of two or both of these questions The first one is um Is there a technology on the shelf that you can speak to and describe That if it comes to fruition, it will really get you over that barrier and present your technology your resource your program Make it available in every state that has the capability of doing water or solar or wind right now We think of hydro in the northwest and other areas with great water, but what's that technology out there that can get us into those Other potential sites that we don't think of the same for solar and wind and what you're doing with your information So that's one question. The second one is tell us if you um Are in Puerto Rico helping to redevelop One of our most important territories. If so, give us a highlight of that Um, I'll start with Jeff or you guys want to talk about Yeah, I I would just say quickly on Puerto Rico that you know, there had been some Significant amount of solar and wind operations in Puerto Rico before the storms For the most part are the facilities. They are survived these whatever 150 mile an hour winds Pretty much intact. There was some damage to some panels But they were able to come through for the most part and survive The impact of the storms themselves in the post, you know, the reconstruction side Um, you know, several of our companies rushed Facilities into and equipment into Puerto Rico particularly in places for For hospitals and for schools to try to set up micro grids to keep the hospitals going in particular Um, so there's a lot of potential in Puerto Rico for solar The issue is again government policy the Um What's the how do you pronounce the name of the the the Yeah, the um Prepa, yeah, it's the Puerto Rican electric power authority, right? They have not necessarily been that supportive of what our companies are trying to do there They tend to dispatch solar and I believe wind Last as opposed to trying to make use of those electrons first Um, they're heavily dependent on fuel oil driven generators Which are not exactly the most efficient way to go about powering your grid And so it's it makes it a little difficult for For our companies to get in there and do large-scale projects and on the homeowner side The problem is a lot of people have difficulty with title proving title to their homes and Being able to show that they Get that, you know, either get the loans or get the cash to do So solar cells on there solar panels on that rooftop Thank you anybody else with a Puerto Rico update for us How about a technology that you would like to raise with this audience that could help your sector move forward or I'll jump in there very quickly. I think a lot of the issues in the hydro industry are not technological I mean, we've been around for a hundred years and we have proven technology that lasts a long time That being said, there are always new advancements that are being made in in in the industry But I think a lot of our issues that are holding us back are policy issues But I'll just say that where we see a lot of advancement happening and a lot of interest is in small hydro smaller projects And also in different kinds of settings than the traditional settings. So in pipe inconduit irrigation canal type hydro Again as well also the marine energy ocean tidal ocean wave Technologies which really haven't gotten a chance of gotten a foothold yet because it's it's been a technology issue in getting them commercialized Yeah, not not much to add the the innovations tend to be in how we address sort of the historic Issues and the way we mitigate the environmental impacts and I would I would say More than any of the other traditional generating sources hydropower is obligated to Internalize all of its off environmental externalities and so There are technological advances that are happening, but it's it's really innovation in how we tackle the environmental and social considerations Lona Sure, just a few comments that It's it's really great when An interdisciplinary team can come together to develop technologies I think we've seen benefits of incorporating biologists or ecologists and designing new technologies and there's certainly a lot of potential for that with What jeff just mentioned about small hydro or hydro in new places that haven't developed before So doing that early on I think is is really key and that's where USGS can help and certainly we aren't the only organization that can do that, but It's kind of like a version 2.0 of developing technologies where you try and avoid issues before they Arise so that's all I'll say about that one Yeah, great questions from the audience. I would just say one thing on that though Becky is that is Storage, you know jeff alluded to it with pump storage We are all supportive of the idea of giving an investment tax credit for storage For for electricity that comes from any source. It doesn't matter where it came from. It's a Ecumenical in that respect, but for us in solar the storage Then you see a lot more companies looking they almost are requiring they want to see Storage with your solar facility And so as the price on batteries comes down very rapidly We just look forward to more innovations on that side in terms of increasing the manufacturing of batteries of any kind Whether they're lithium ion or others It's going to be crucial for making it possible to Expand the amount of solar that's on the grid in general Absolutely very important point anybody from the audience here, sir, please identify yourself So the question for those of you may not be able to hear is that what why is the number sort of 3% of dams generate power in 97% Don't why is that number sort of stuck where it was? I think it's been a variety of of different Reasons for that. I think that there are a Significant portion of those dams where it just doesn't make Environmental sense or economic sense The the projects are too small to be viable necessarily with with the infrastructure in place. I think that's part of it. I think Particularly now When you see low natural gas prices and other issues, it's just the to put that kind of investment into a smaller project Where a lot of those dams are smaller projects You just can't make that investment work. You don't get the economies of scale I think part of that is licensing costs that do come into it and the amount of time And then lastly, I think it's everything I said in my speech, which was policy Back when many of these policies for clean energy renewable energy were put into place There was a lot of existing hydro, but not a lot of existing everything else And so in order to make sure that we created a market for new entrants We excluded hydro, but we haven't necessarily gone back and updated some of those Definitions even for new new power generation new new facilities. So it's I think it's just a combination of all of that We're over time, but I'll take one more question Anybody else Okay, if not, thank you very much for coming and