Keith Knowles - SolarCity

From Drive Oregon's September networking event, "Driving on Sunshine: Market Opportunities at the Intersection of Electric Vehicles and Solar Power"

Presented by Keith Knowles, Regional Sales Manager in Oregon at SolarCity

1. An electricity choice
Keith Knowles
971-400-0712
[email protected]

2. SolarCity Confidential Slide 2
Energiewende

3. SolarCity Confidential Slide 3
2,211 million metric
tons in 2011 alone!

Electricity 33%
Transportation 28%
Agriculture 8%
Commercial
& Residential 11%
Industry 20%
What’s at Stake: One Third of America’s Emissions

4. SolarCity Confidential Slide 4
Utilities use more fresh water to generate
electricity than we drink and use in our homes
Fossil fuel-based thermoelectric power plants use 753 gallons of water to power the average
home for a single day. That’s more water than the typical human consumes in a year.
Aquaculture 2%
Irrigation 31%
Livestock 1%
Thermo Electric 49%
Industrial 4%
Mining 1%
Public Supply 11%
Domestic 1%

5. SolarCity Confidential Slide 5
Electric utilities create
more than half of all toxic
water pollution in the
United States

6. SolarCity Confidential Slide 6
+ 43%

7. SolarCity Confidential Slide 7
< 1%

8. SolarCity Confidential Slide 8
In the last decade, solar
panel sales have doubled
every 21 months.

Prices have dropped 20%
for each doubling.

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Thank You
Keith Knowles
971-400-0712
[email protected]