Renewables Industry Quotes

Nancy Floyd, Cofounder and Managing Director, Nth Power - The Clean Tech Revolution - June 2007

• "Think about renewable and distributed energy once it's a price parity with conventional energy. We'll see the Googles of clean energy, the Ciscos of smart intelligence."

Former President Bill Clinton - Speech at the Kennedy Center - October 2003

• “If I were running for president, I would say we need a new energy economy and we're going to create a million jobs with it. There is a trillion dollar untapped market for clean energy and energy conservation technologies already developed around the world.”

Peter Droege, Chair of the Planning Institute of Australia’s Urban Design Chapter - “Renewable Energy and the City” - June 2005

• “Indeed the Internet, a vital global and largely urban network of networks, relies largely on fossil fuel operated hardware, conduit-based Webs and wireless communication systems. If global communications are to be sustained reliably beyond the middle of the 21st century, they must be powered by distributed, ubiquitous and redundant renewable power supply systems. The required technology arrays with the concomitant policy and action frameworks do in principle exist to bring about manageable post fossil fuel urban environments.”

Amory Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute and author of Small is Profitable - 2002

• “In 1976, the concept of largely "distributed" or decentralized electricity production was heretical; in the 1990s, it became important; by 2000, it was the subject of cover stories in such leading publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The New York Times; and by 2002, it was emerging as the marketplace winner.”