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Mr. Tom Plant,

Senior Advisor at the Center for the New Energy Economy

Colorado State University

Mr. David McCawley

Consul General of the United States of America

Amsterdam NL

Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Transition

June 9, 2016

Pauline Westendorp

Social Entrepreneur NEWNRG Wij krijgen Kippen

Amsterdam Region on sustainable energy in 2028

Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam

100% sustainable energy in 2028

100%

2014 2028

4%

40% = 100%

Fossil

Sustainable energy

Colorado

Colorado …

leading or trailing

in energy transition?

Azerbaijan situation

Global Solutions

• FT 21 april 2016: Wall Street seesmoney in green investment

• NY 22 April 2016: >175 countries signParis Agreement, among themAzerbaijan

• UN: ‘ideal world’ in 2030 with 17 Global Goals

Our solution

Connect the dots on a local level

Amsterdam Region…

leading or trailing

in energy transition?

Analysis Azerbaijan

- Status

- Storage

- Electric transport

Azerbaijan3 high impact projects:

• 100% electrification of transport (cars, scooters, metro) in Baku before 2025– Partners: US Ambassy, Shell, Arcadis, NEWNRG, GVB, Anthelion

Capital, daughter Oliyev is Leilah

– Orange Energy Challenge with Amsterdam and San Francisco

• 20 autark regions (cheaper and more beautiful) in 2020– Near and in National Parks

– Mountain regions where floods cut electricity (check)

With solar, wind, biomass and hydropower

• Higher Oil + ADA University: work with CalifornianUniversities and ‘Advanced Metropolitan Solutions’ in Amsterdam

Proposed Solution

Impossible?

• 50 regions in the world already

completed their energy transition

• No metropolitan region yet.

• We challenge Baku.

7.7 million jobs worldwidehttp://www.ren21.net/wp-

content/uploads/2015/07/GSR2015_KeyFindings_lowres.pdf

Our plan

• We form an informal network of trusted local professionals

• We meet with formal network(government, academic, listedcompanies)

• We make a 6 months plan – together

• Together we put ‘man on moon’

Tap into the wisdom of the local

crowd to accelerate energy transition

Our strategy

• We used to spend €2.000.000.000 a year on energy in Amsterdam region

• All parties invest together

• We invest this money in (social) firms installingsolar, wind, heatpumps and insulation

• We share knowledge on Thursdays (energy breakfasts, expert sessions)

• and …

we map

we visit

we listen and validate

we solve issues

Pensionfund PGGM (€ 160 bln) wants Shell as a renewable energy company?

: We intend to make investments in

large-scale [..] storage, biofuels,

wind and solar energy.

Worldwide investors in fossil (€2.300 bln), promised to withdraw their money.

24/9/2015, NRC

May 26 ,2016

we follow the news

share ideas with Shell, Statkraft, AES

celebrate in our neighbourhoods

Into the Orange Energy Challenge

• We empower communities to drive the

transition themselves

• Hundreds of spirited entrepreneurs already

have the plans

• Which explains the reason of Orange Energy

We challenged our neighbour Region

of Rotterdam last week

Waldorf School Challenge

• Our school challenges 9 other schools

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