Dive Summary:
- Former President Bill Clinton delivered the keynote at Solar Power International 2012, speaking on the future of greentech and his desire to add more to the 308 solar panels on his presidential library’s roof.
- He told the crowd that in order to get everyone onboard, Americans need to know more of the facts—that 100,000 people work in solar, that more people work in greentech than in coal, that greentech grew at 8% during the worst of the recession and that the U.S. was first in the world in greentech investment in 2011 thanks to venture capital.
- On the Solyndra controversy, Clinton state that the bankruptcy only represented less than 1% of the Department of Energy’s investment in clean energy and had nothing to do with tax credits.
From the article:
He has only 308 solar panels on the roof of his presidential library, former President Bill Clinton announced at the opening of his Solar Power International 2012 keynote, and he is taking bids to drastically expand. “So if anybody wants in, send me an email.” He then picked up the subject of creative cooperation he talked about at the Democratic National Convention. …
