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Gordian RaackeExecutive DirectorRenewable Energy Long Island (reLI)

www.RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org

Here & Now: Lets Build a100% Renewable & Resilient

Energy System

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Getty Images/Photodisc/Steve Cole

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First Commercial Power Plant

1880: Thomas Edison Plant

Fulton Street, Manhattan, NY

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Our Electric System

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The Great Transformation

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Transforming from..toCentralized De-centralized

Vulnerable Resilient

Fossil/Carbon-based Renewable/0-Carbon

Imported Fuel(Coal, Oil, Natural Gas)

Local Fuel(Sun, Wind, Water)

Price-Volatility Fixed Price

Utility-owned Community-owned

Oligarchy Democracy

Utility Board Room Kitchen Table

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October 2012: Superstorm Sandy

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9/20 2012 Reuters/Keith Bedford

The Rockaways, Queens, New YorkOctober 30, 2012

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Sea Level Rise & Flood Scenarios

http://maps.coastalresilience.org/newyork/10

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Choosing Our Energy Future

Long Islands South Fork

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2014 Resolution: Energy Goals for the Town ofEast Hampton

it shall be the goal of the Town of East Hampton to:

- meet 100% of community wide electricity consumption with renewable

energy sources by the year 2020 and to

- meet the equivalent of 100% of economy wide energy consumption suchas electricity, heating, and transportation with renewable energy sources by

the year 2030; and further be it

- RESOLVED, that these goals can be reasonable met based upon existing and new

national, state, and local initiatives.

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NYS Executive Order No. 24

80 x 50 Goal

reduce current greenhouse gas emissions

from all sources within the State 80% by the

year 2050

1990 CO2e 2050 CO2e

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100% Renewable Energy Components

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Its happening around the world

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Germanys 100% Renewable Energy Regions

89 100% RE Regions

58 Starter Regions

3 100 RE Urban Regions

150 Total

125,000 km2

(~48,000 sq.mi.)

24 Million People

Source: http://100ee.deenet.org/

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100% Renewable Electricity Examples

Samsoe (Denmark) got to 100% RE in just 10 years Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) 100% as of 2014

Munich (Germany) 100% RE by 2025

Scotland 100% RE goal for 2020

San Francisco 100% RE by 2020

City of Aspen 100% RE by 2015 achieved

City of Greensburg, KS 100% RE achieved

Burlington, VT 100% RE achieved

and now East Hampton 100% RE by 2020

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Gordian Raacke

Executive Director

Renewable Energy Long Island (reLI)

RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org

Facebook.com/RenewableEnergyLongIslandinfo@RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org

631-329-8888

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