English subtitles for clip: File:Inside the White House- Solar Panels.webm

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(Cheery melody of
bells and strings)

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Secretary Moniz: Solar panels
on the White House I think

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are a really important
message that solar is here.

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We are doing it.

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We can do a lot more.

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I am very bullish on the future
of solar energy as a key part

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of our clean energy future.

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James Doherty: The size of the
array that we established here

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is the typical size for the
average American house.

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Being at the White House, we do
have some security concerns.

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We can't cover the
entire roof with panels,

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though that would be good from
an energy-saving standpoint.

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(Laughter.)

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Cyrus Wadia: Everything from the
solar components to the inverter

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technologies to the labor that
put the panels on the roof

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was all America.

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Domestic source,
domestic maintenance.

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It serves as a symbol that
America technology in solar is

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available, it's reliable,
and it's ready for millions

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of Americans across the country.

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James Doherty: So the first
thing what we did was we drilled

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down into the concrete and then
basically epoxied a series

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of threaded rods back up
through the baton tops.

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We then were able to install
a series of grids for a

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subassembly upon which the solar
panels could then be secured.

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Secretary Moniz: Clean energy
revolution is not something

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for the distant future.

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It's happening right now
and we want to capture that.

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Cyrus Wadia: Every four
minutes, some small business

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or home owner is going solar.

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In a sense, we're going through
a transition here and the

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industry is going through a
transition that we're just

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seeing the beginning of.

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Minh Le: The President is
basically doing what Americans

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all across the nation
are doing right now.

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They're making the conscious
choice to look for renewable

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energy like solar as
the cheaper, cleaner,

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and preferred energy source
for their homes and families.

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Cyrus Wadia: You know, we need
to diversify the clean energy

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portfolio as articulated in the
President's Climate Action Plan,

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which we are actively
engaged in now.

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And we also need to spur the
economic sectors of the future.

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Last year alone we created over
23,000 new jobs in solar energy.

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James Doherty: Obviously the
more that we can install

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renewable energy sources,
the better off not just

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the White House is, but the
nation is and so is the

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whole planet.