Professor Dan Reicher spoke at the 2014 Kern County Energy Summit. He is quoted in this piece discussing President Obama's call to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the future of local wind and solar projects.

Wednesday, Obama and the Chinese president released their plans to reduce carbon over the next 20 years. That came out just as local energy spokesmen met for the annual Kern Energy Summit.

Dr. Dan Reicher was at the summit to talk about making progress with clean energy, he sees more opportunities with new carbon-cutting goals from Obama.

“I think it means for a place like Kern County, which is a real leader in renewable energy, there's going to be in theory even more opportunity for deploying these kinds of technologies like solar and wind,” Reicher told Eyewitness News. He's the executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University.

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Dr. Reicher said solar and wind need to work on ways to store that energy and integrate it into the existing power grids. His comments to the energy summit stressed it will take technology, policy and finance to achieve clean energy progress.

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