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So this week we're bringing you a live show that we recorded at an AC

Tripoli efficiency event in San Francisco. I just wanted to give you a

heads up that some of the audio may sound a bit hollow. We were using some

omni directional conference mics that picked up some sound from around the room, so it didn't make for the most optimal

recording experience. It sounded great if you were sitting in the room with us in front of

the PA, but some of the microphones picked up a slight echo.

So just keep that in mind.

I think you'll still enjoy the conversation, however.

So here it is.

For the week of November 18th, 2014, this is the Energy Gang from Green Tech Media.

Hello and welcome, I'm Stephen Lacy, a senior editor with Green Tech Media, and we are

we are live this week in downtown San Francisco at

a C triple e's intelligent efficiency conference

before us sit hundreds of energy efficiency professionals and as we ask with every live show we do,

please make yourselves known to the people back home. And the folks out there were kind enough to put down their forks and knives to give us a round of applause.

We are doing a lunchtime session for the first time. Now I've caught jigger eating

a bowl of cheerios once during the show, but we've never done a lunchtime session. I've

had my suspicions that you eat when we record the show, but now I can keep my eye on you.

That's what of the of course, the founder of Sun Edison, one of the largest solar developers in the world,

actually one of the biggest renewable energy developers now because they acquired

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