you can get petro and ethanol, but we can't get to the massive amounts of recharging leading to storage in the vehicle sector until we first figure out how to do this in a more efficient way and what already exists is an infrastructure that needs a lot of innovation to it, which is the power t and d sector. from the vehicle side, we have a ways to go. within the vehicle, you can look at that as almost a microgrid. various manufacturers are coming up with all kinds of ways to automate and control and look at how energy is used within the vehicle itself. >> one of the research and development projects they are undertaking is electric vehicle charging application for the home. they're doing the research to understand the requirements of driving home and plugging your vehicle in and the best time to do it and what intelligence should be used to determine what the best method to do that is. that is a program under way in the early stages. >> there is some chatter about commercial building sector having an adjustment similar to where the residential sector has over the last couple of years. w

we do not want to see our dollars indirectly go into the hands of petro-dictators somewhere around the world who are financing terrorism. one way we can fight back -- one way we can fight back is to have more renewable power in our state. from the wind, from solar, from biomass, we can do this. we have a law that this general assembly passed, a good law that says by 2025, 25% of our power will come from renewable sources. we can do this. we have to embark on it right now. we have to build those wind turbines into it in a proper way. one thing about the sustainable economy, the green economy, or investing in renewable energy is that it brings in jobs that create prosperity. siemens, an internationally known company, came to elgin this year. they are building gears for these giant wind turbines, manufacturing it right in our backyard. we have to grab this opportunity and develop the green economy for jobs for the people of illinois. i think that there are many other ways to do this. it is important as we take all look at our economy to understand that jobs follow brainpower. we can never

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energy and build a gas -- and engaged in petro energy and build a gas refineries. unless we take measures to move to a high-tech economy, we will never be able to overcome the technological backwardness or change our economy in a radical matter. if that is the case, we will be much more dependent on the cyclical nature to which the global economy is subject to. every failure, of any change in the global economy, even with minor disturbances and unpleasant events in the global economy, we will be you reacting to them extremely quickly. there is a securities market term that applies for the market is very dependent or all tile. it jumps back and forth. in the grand scheme, our economy will be volatile. if we keep basing it on selling our raw materials and nothing else. modernization is a vitally important thing. it should have been started yesterday. the presidential commission has been put in place to look after it and this work will carry on across the entire nation. energy efficiency, nuclear power engineering, the creation of new fuels, space technology, public h

we can certainly get petro and ethanol, we can't get to the massive amounts recharging needed to storage in the vehicle sector. until we first figure out how to do this in a more efficient way than what already exists and one that needs a lot of innovation to it. which is really the power team in the sector. so i think from the vehicle side, we have a ways to go. now within the vehicle, you can look at that as almost a microgrid of smart grid. and, you know, various manufacturers are coming up with all kinds of ways to automate and control and look at how energy is used within the vehicle itself. >> if i can follow up on this, eaton is involved in a number of technologies at the residential level through the transmission distribution level at utilities. one of the research and development projects we are undertaking is electrical vehicle charging application for the home. we are doing the research to understand the requirements of driving home and plugging your vehicle in and when is the best time and how that should be regulated and what intelligence should be used to determine what the