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Video Transcript | March 2010 Chevron Tests Solar Technologies Leslie Klinchuch, Brightfield Project Manager A project like this is an opportunity for us to learn a whole lot more about solar energy because it’s going to be so important to the future energy needs of the world. Tim Veale, Manager, Renewable Energy Services We’re at Project Brightfield in Bakersfield, California. I manage the day-to-day construction activities. Project Brightfield is a solar test facility that Chevron has installed to test and evaluate different solar technologies. Leslie Klinchuch We’re standing on what used to be a former Chevron refinery. It’s neat to be able to reuse and repurpose the property for something as exciting as solar energy. Jerry Lomax, Vice President, Emerging Energy Brightfield is important because it’s a demonstration of new solar panel technologies. Now, I’ve chosen to work in renewable energy because I think it’s the next wave in helping to power the planet. Tim Veale We’re actually doing the build-out of the final array, and once this array is finished being built out, we’ll have all eight arrays completed. To most people, these panels all look the same, but actually they’re quite different. The chemical makeup and how they’re made make each one unique. And what we’re trying to do is evaluate them based upon those differences so that we can realize which ones provide us the most value in the future. Leslie Klinchuch Because we want to build more solar projects – and we’ll be able to learn what worked best here and use that on other sites. Jerry Lomax We will definitely know which panels perform the best across a range of weather conditions. We’ll know which ones are durable, and we’ll be in a position to understand how to move forward to build arrays that are 25 to 100 times this size. Leslie Klinchuch And we’re uniquely positioned in that we have the expertise and energy to put projects like this together.