to make today this is a big day for us
here in Virginia when I ran for governor
I talked about what we needed to do to
build the new Virginia economy and tire
that was building what we call the clean
energy economy what does that mean that
means we have to lead in the nation I'm
the new clean sources of energy that we
have we've got to build the
infrastructure I also call for 300 of
our public sector cars to become where
we are to fuel alternative vehicles
these were all big goals when we put
these out several years ago and I'm
proud we're a different state than we
were three and a half years ago when I
became governor we had 17 megawatts of
solar installed in the Commonwealth of
Virginia
today we're nearing 2,000 megawatts the
fastest growing on solar of any state in
America in addition I announced two
weeks ago that we are going to build the
first in America utility scale offshore
wind project that we're going to build
about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia
Beach this is a different day for
Virginia why is important because about
important for the environment it's
important about keeping our environment
clean it's about those jobs of the 21st
century and it's about building that
what I call energy infrastructure so
that we can continue to move around and
do it as easily as possible
I'm also proud that today I'm announcing
that we have also met the other goal
that the 300 public sector alternative
fuel vehicle goal has been met it has
been met five months early I appreciate
the great work that they have done we
have now doubled the number of
alternative public sector vehicles that
we have here in the Commonwealth of
Virginia so this is another promise
captain I want to thank all the folks
involved John diem and me I want to
thank all the community groups we'll bit