1. Sun City U.S.A "New Day in the Sun"

2. Peak Electric Demand Growing

3. Air Pollution Causing Public Health Crisis

4. Federal Climate Legislation On Its Way

5. Economic Development: Replicate Success of Wind

7. Federal Money President Obama has called for doubling renewable energy production within three years President Obama has called for doubling renewable energy production within three years Pledge of $15 billion per year for ten years Pledge of $15 billion per year for ten years

8. 8 Immense potential Less than 4% of the Sahara area is sufficient to cover world electricity demand. A power plant of 300km x 300km would provide enough electricity for the world. The boxes indicate the necessary area to cover the electricity demand of: * the world * the EU-25 *Germany Source: Schott Solarthermie GmbH

9. U.S. solar resources are untapped Currently, solar provides less than 0.1% of the electricity used in the U.S. For the U.S., less than 2% of the land dedicated to cropland and grazing could provide all of our electricity. Covering less than 0.2% of the land on the earth with 10%- efficient solar cells would provide twice the power used by the world.

10. 10 Texas could be a world leader in Solar Power.

11. Photovoltaic Panels for homes and businesses for homes and businesses Distributed Solar

12. . Rooftop Solar

13. Utility-scale PV Solar Panels

14. Utility-scale CSP/Solar Thermal technologies Utility-scale power plants for intermediate and baseload power. Trough Tower Dishes Linear Fresnel

16. 16 American Supply Potential  US Summer Peak demand ~ 800,000MW.  100MW of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) requires ~1 sq mile in the southwestern U.S.  8,000 square miles of CSP would meet entire U.S. electric peak demand.

17. Prices Coming Down

18. Big Investments in Solar

19. Compound annual growth rate of 46% world-wide. PV growing rapidly in key countries

20. 20 Rapid Growth Possible NOTE: “Intercon” favorable interconnection rules and “NetMeter” indicates a removal of Net Metering Caps.

21. Key Provisions of S.B. 545 Creates a distributed solar generation incentive program for residential and business customers administered by electric utilities; Ensures that costumers putting solar or other renewable energy on their property get paid a minimum fair market value should they generate surplus energy; Ensures that information about the incentive program and about what buyback rates are offered by retail electric providers is available on the PUC Web site, and on customers' bills; Provides net metering policies requiring customers to receive real time market price for exported energy and allows them to obtain other offers from renewable energy producers and clarifies that customers can have third parties install solar energy devices on their home and lease the system; Bars residential homeowners associations from imposing arbitrary bans on solar technology on homes; Mandates that municipally-owned utilities and electric co-ops would have to report their own efforts to create solar rebate programs; Authorizes the State Energy Conservation Office to establish a revolving loan program to help schools install solar energy systems; Requires that home builders of new subdivisions with more than 50 homes offer the installation of solar energy devices as an option for new home buyers.