Then, what have I not asked you that you've been interested to talk about? I'd like to really catch on workforce development. If you look at what's happening in the energy space, there's a lot of transformational issues. There's a lot of technology, a lot of excitement on the supply side moving from a centralized system to a decentralized system. Do we have the engineers in place in order to make that transition and the quality that's going to be required if we do this globally? Then, you look at the transmission systems. We are looking at, well, should we be considering superconductors to transmit that energy? Again, who's the engineer? Who's the technician that actually is following suit on this, on the distribution side? On the consumption side, energy can be handled in so many different ways, you mentioned demand response. Who's designing the energy management system of tomorrow? Who's actually designing the systems that can control these smart grids, these micro grids so that we don't lose the efficiency of mutual aid and working with other utilities. But also, how are they relating to what the New York ISO has always done? So, they're trying to balance transmission from the supply and consumption side, but now how do we integrate those controls at the distributed energy resource level? I think that individual out there doesn't exist today in the volumes that are required. So, it's great to talk about this and it's exciting to me, but that worker of tomorrow and the pipelines that are required, we need the colleges and universities actively engaged in the strategic sense of where energy is going, not only from a workforce development point of view but from a research and modeling point of perspective as well. Building that individual, that employer sense of what it needs and developing those skill-sets and then ensuring that we have the employee of tomorrow. Engineer, technician, line-worker. They'll all be transformed based on the aggressive nature of how we're transforming this industry and this needs to be put together. The future is exciting in the energy space, but it's only exciting if we can deliver the promises that we keep making. I often think about the typical service truck we see out on the street. What's it equipped to do today and what's likely to be equipped to do in 10 years? Would that suite of sensors out there, and being able to read those sensors and analyze data, making preemptive repairs on the line. We need to think about the workers that are going to be on those trucks and what kind of computer skills they need and other skills they need. It's quite a challenge. In the 1980's when I joined Carrier Corporation which was a function of United Technologies, the whole intent of that industry at the time was to move electronic controls into the building automation world. We would be able to take a computer, plug it into a chilled water system and determine everything that their chilled water system was doing. That at the time in the 80's was fascinating. Now, we're here, now we're looking at the energy of the future. Do I have that same technology that can just simply plug into the substation, and tell me exactly what's happening from what it's receiving on the supply side? What it's delivering? What's the heat loss? Is the oil contact crack? Do I have the right temperatures? This is the generation that we're looking forward to seeing, and this is the type of activity that we'll seeing in the worker of tomorrow. Well, we don't have to look much further for even the end user customer in another got smart systems in their own homes. Whether it's regulating temperature, providing information, looking at the historical information and that's the wonderful thing about the energy system is that everybody is involved. You've got top level thought-leaders trying to plan the future and then you've got people at the very bottom of the funnel, making everyday decisions about how they're going to live their lives. Whether they're going to turn the air conditioner on, whether they're going to use a room air conditioner, whether fans are adequate for me to sleep that night. Am I going to buy an electric car? That's why it's exciting. So, if you think about the way the system works today, rely on policy decisions, so energy policy is developed. Programs and centers, utilities develop tariffs based on those energy policies and they are somewhat down relative to the way the traditional system is set up today. What we need to demand from this system is a much more market driven approach here because I envision the consumer of tomorrow being able to control its own destiny. They might say, "Look, I don't really need to have the utility delivering me energy. I may want to deliver that, I may want to develop that on my own." So, I'll look at not only put in solar but I might want to look at fuel cells. I may want to look at a combined heat power system because I'd like to be able to generate electricity, but also get heating and cooling off that type of a system. Tomorrow and the way we're transforming this industry, the consumer will control the outcome and they will have the options based on what their needs are and that's what excites me. How do we do that in such a way that they're actually being paid for what they're creating? That's the challenge, and that's why we need the market more involved and how energy policy is set. Energy policy turns into programs, programs and policy turns into tariffs, tariffs turns into an impact on your bill. Let those who pay the bill, let those who actually can impact the bill be part of developing that policy.
