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Luncheon Remarks: Transforming the Glass City into the Solar City: Toledo's Tradition of Innovation and Entrepreneurship--Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
Luncheon Remarks: Transforming the Glass City into the Solar City: Toledo's Tradition of Innovation and Entrepreneurship--Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
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began by thanking the National Academies, and she said it was an honor to speak on a subject that "promotes economic and environmental sustainability and energy independence for our nation, which is my top priority as a member of the defense committee." She asked, "How can it be that Toledo, Ohio, ended up leading our nation in such a key area of energy independence." First, she said, the power rates charged by investor-owned utilities along Lake Erie's south coast to Cleveland are among the most expensive in the nation and constitute "a serious impediment to economic growth in our region. It is amazing that we have the industry we have in view of these incredible prices." She said she also represented "the worst nuclear power plant in the United States," which had averaged one incident per decade over the last two decades.
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Glass expertise, she said, had led to a range of skills around solar energy, including solar energy building materials, heat shields, and fiber optics. Her own interest in renewable energy began long ago, she said, and gained depth when she served as White House policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter.
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"It's because many people have given their lives to it." She said that Ohio had just recognized the two-decade-long effort pursuing innovation and R&D by funding the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization at the University of Toledo. She praised the university for its progress in PV, and recalled that at a recent World Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi, the United States was represented by only two universities -- MIT and the University of Toledo.
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Science matters, business matters, energy independence matters. We have sustained our commitment to basic research as a prerequisite to the development of solar companies, and we will never stop pushing the science." At the University of Toledo, two vehicles for doing this had been the Clean and Alternative Energy Incubator and the Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio, which both educate private interests in the technologies developed in the universities.
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business faced "severe disadvantages" in the global market place. As an example of unfair trade laws, she pointed to automobiles: "Fewer than 3 percent of the cars in Japan are from any other country, whereas more than half the products sold in the United States are from abroad, or from companies from abroad operating in the United States.
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My biggest worry is that somebody's going to walk off with 100 years of effort who won't love our community like Dr. Compaan, Dr.
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