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Transcript: Innovation — Green House: Fairfield

  1. Montage of Shots of the sun shining, a generator functioning, and workers at work atop the roof of the GE Headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, constructing a large photovoltaic panel.

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    Mark Stoler (voiceover):
    Up here we're on the top of the roof of our headquarters in Fairfield. And the solar initiative is part of our broader, what we call our One Thirty Thirty Program, for greenhouse, gas, and energy reductions. This is a project that helps demonstrate GE technology at its best. And we thought, where better to do this than our own headquarters?
  2. Exterior – Fairfield – GE Headquarters – Roof – Day. Medium Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Mark Stoler:
    I'm Mark Stoler. I'm Director of Environment, Health, and Safety Operations.
  3. Close Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Mark Stoler:
    I've worked for GE for eight years, uh, all of it in an environment, health, and safety role. And I've worked in the environmental area for more than twenty-five years.
  4. Montage of Shots of workers at work on the roof of the GE Headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, constructing the photovoltaic panel.

    Mark Stoler (voiceover):
    Innovation is looking at both what you do, how the world is changing, what the world expects...
  5. Medium Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Mark Stoler (continued):
    of us, and thinking about how do I do something different? How do I do something not just to meet those needs, but to do it in a way that's gonna be of value to the company going forward.
  6. Montage of Shots of Todd Ness inspecting the photovoltaic panel, camera pans left over large packaging titled, "Photovoltaic Module, ecomagination, a GE commitment."

    Todd Ness (voiceover):
    We're able to put a hundred and sixty-eight kilowatts of production on this roof. We won't produce an ounce of greenhouse gases. We won't use an- an ounce of energy in- in doing it. It’ll do it for the next thirty years, with little or no maintenance. My name is Todd Ness. I...
  7. Medium Close Shot – Todd Ness.

    Todd Ness (continued):
    am a project manager with, uh, CP and SO, Corporate Properties and Services Operation.
  8. Montage of Shots of workers at work on the roof of the GE Headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, constructing the photovoltaic panel.

    Todd Ness (voiceover):
    And this spring I've had the privilege to install a hundred sixty-eight kilowatt photovoltaic generating system on the roof of the buildings in Fairfield, Connecticut.
    Mark Stoler (voiceover):
    With our...
  9. Medium Close Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Mark Stoler (continued):
    solar initiative, what we're looking at, uh, at least in this first wave, are thirty, uh, GE locations.
  10. Medium Full Shot – A photovoltaic panel. Workers stand in background. Camera pans left off of the workers, along the length of the photovoltaic panel.

    Mark Stoler (voiceover):
    And those locations are across all of our businesses and across the world. When we announced...
  11. Close Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Mark Stoler (continued):
    our greenhouse gas goals, we knew that we were settin' the bar high for the company.
  12. Long Shot – Todd Ness and Mark Stoler. Camera zooms in on them.

    Mark Stoler (voiceover):
    And, as I go around to facilities around the world, what I see is, everybody wants to be a part of this.
  13. Close Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Mark Stoler:
    Everybody is asking, what can I do?
  14. Close Shot – Todd Ness.

    Todd Ness:
    When you realize the benefits of putting this, an installation on this, you j-...
  15. Medium Shot – Mark Stoler.

    Todd Ness (voiceover) (continued):
    you just realize, you got to...
  16. Low Angle Long Shot – Todd Ness.

    Todd Ness (voiceover) (continued):
    encourage it, you got to do it, and you...
  17. Close Shot – Todd Ness.

    Todd Ness (continued):
    got to do it in every application, every location that you possibly can. It's good for the world. It's good for my kids and my grandkids.
  18. Black. Fade to Black.

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