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Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2009, based on the National Establishment Time Series Database; analysis by Pew Center on the States and Collaborative Economics.
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Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2009, based on the National Establishment Time Series Database; analysis by Pew Center on the States and Collaborative Economics.
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US Voters Warm Up to Renewable Energy
It’s election season once again. One of the most important times of the year, where we get to decide the direction that our country is moving in. It looks like elections this year will hold good news for renewable energy. In a recent poll of voters conducted by Public Policy Polling for the NRDC Action Fund it was found that the majority of voters were in support of an energy bill with strong ties to renewable sources. The poll was conducted in 23 congressional districts and concluded that at least 52% of voters in these districts would be more inclined to support a candidate whose platform included energy policy that would cut pollution and reduce the effects of climate change.
This is good news for the booming renewable energy sector. Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has already gotten the ball rolling by supporting renewable energy projects in the United States. Continued legislation in favor of renewables will only further cement the progress that has been made in the past 3 years. Continue reading
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ON LINE – Nevada’s Southwest Intertie Project: How it Demonstrates Commitment to Renewable Green Energy
The town of Apex, Nevada is normally just the location of the Apex Regional Landfill (the largest landfill in the state of Nevada), a small relief power station that comes online when nearby Las Vegas is overloading the grid and not much else. However last week brought red-letter days for this dusty, nondescript stretch of Hwy 93 situated just northeast of the city of lights. The One Nevada Transmission Line or “ON Line” (so clever!) project commencement was hosted at NV Energy’s [NASDAQ: NVE] Harry Allen Generating Station campus on Tuesday. It was a fairly star-studded event with U.S. Energy Secretary Ken Salazar and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both in attendance, alongside a veritable who’s who of Nevada’s energy-industry brass to witness the beginning of a project that is being billed as a significant breakthrough in the support of renewable power and a major source of green collar jobs, as well as being symbolic of the new direction the state of Nevada is taking towards energy policy through the strong support of renewables.
The One Nevada transmission line consists of a 500 kilovolt power conduit that will cover the entire length of the state of Nevada running north-south. It will eventually be extended as far north as Idaho. The portion of the line that will be completed in this first phase consists of a 235-mile line extending from the Harry Allen site to a new electrical substation that will be constructed northwest of the town of Ely, Nevada. The projected price tag for the project will top $510 million. Continue reading
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Controversial Waste-Burning Renewable Energy Powerplant Moves Forward in Baltimore’s Fairfield Neighborhood
At the site of a former agricultural chemical processing facility in south Baltimore Maryland, Energy Answers of Albany, N.Y. is working on a different kind of renewable energy electrical generation facility. The power source? Trash. That’s right, garbage – the company hopes to take refuse off the curb and bring it right back to you through the meter. The generator would produce a moderately sized 120MW of electricity directly to the grid plus steam heat available locally to industrial consumers by burning up to 4,000 tons of garbage a day.
The project is classified as a renewable energy venture because it won’t be using fossil fuels to generate power. Because of that it is eligible for lucrative federal funding. Instead of functioning in the capacity of a normal incinerator, the facility will use Processed Refuse Fuel (PRF) which is essentially sorted and shredded residential and commercial garbage. The PRF burns cleaner and hotter than refuse that is used as fuel in traditional incinerators. The boiler will also use moderate amounts of Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) because of the high energy density of the material. Continue reading
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Clinton Global Initiative Reveals High Hopes for Green Jobs
At the recent Clinton Global Initiative conference held in New York Last week, a variety of different topics were discussed. Among the hottest topics: Green Jobs and the growth of the green economy. The Clinton Global Initiative describes itself as:
“…a meeting of innovative, action-oriented, and socially responsible leaders in the world. The Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting brings together heads of state, government and business leaders, scholars, and NGO directors. Participants analyze pressing global challenges, discuss the most effective solutions, and build lasting partnerships that enable them to create positive social change.”
That being said, it should be encouraging that green development and the green economy were one topic that was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. According to leaders at the conference, the green sector is the shining light amidst an otherwise gloomy outlook.
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Tagged clean energy, clean energy jobs, eco friendly, employment, environment, green, green collar, green collar jobs, green economy, green energy, green jobs, obama, recovery act
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Green Jobs Can be Great Jobs
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Rhode Island Introduces Special Program to Meet Demand for Green Collar Professionals
Providence, Rhode Island has now begun a special training program in order to meet the growing demand for green collar professionals in the state. The 16-week program allows participants to earn in-demand certifications for energy-efficient construction, green renovation and deconstruction, renewable energy, as well as lead and asbestos removal. It is being offered to low income residents in the west Providence area free of charge.
The program is being sponsored in part by Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline. He explained that the program, which has started with just 67 students will eventually grow to 200 or more. The certification will be awarded after a mix of classroom, job readiness and on-site training. After 5 weeks of class study, each participant will receive a weekly stipend for 11 weeks as part of the on-the-job portion of the training program. Partnering with the city for the job-training component of the program are Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living, an environmentally focused South Providence nonprofit organization, and Ecotope, a South Providence waste-management company formerly known as CleanScape.
Michael Van Leesten, chairman and CEO of the of Rhode Island said the emerging green economy promises a wealth of new job opportunities for Rhode Island residents, part of the reason that the state has chosen to fund the program. Opportunities Industrialization Center is another South Providence-based organization partnering with the city on the program.
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Tagged clean energy jobs, eco certification, employment, Environmental Consultants, environmental consulting career, green certificates, green collar, green collar jobs, green education, green jobs classes, recovery act, renewable energy consulting, sustainability consulting
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Obama Pledges Clean Energy Policy to Create 800,000 Jobs by 2012
In a speech given during a visit to a Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin battery plant on Monday, President Barack Obama predicted that the nation’s manufacturing and industry would be a primary source of economic growth and that the policies his administration is putting in place would create 800,000 jobs in the next two years.
“Our commitment to clean energy … [is] going to help lay the foundation for lasting economic growth,” Obama proclaimed at Wisconsin-based ZBB Energy’s main facility [AMEX: ZBB]. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and distributes energy storage systems and solutions based on their zinc-bromine rechargeable electrical energy storage and power management technologies.
The president also targeted Republicans for stymieing the Democrats’ policies in Congress. Attempting to pin the tail of economic woe on the GOP, he claimed that the party has “made the political calculation that it’s better to stand on the sidelines than work as a team to help American businesses and American workers.”
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City of Rochester Plans Large Scale Project Utilizing Retrofit Funding
Rochester General Hospital received an award of more than $300,000 from New York State Energy Research and Development Authority President and CEO Francis J. Murray and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. The money will be used to finance lighting modernization projects that Eco Consultants have estimated will save the hospital more than $47,000 annual energy costs.
Mr. Murray said the award was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to promote conservation and energy efforts. Rochester General Hospital is one of eight energy conservation and renewable energy project beneficiaries given to Monroe County with a total amount of $1.2 Million in federal ARRA support Continue reading
Wind Power Projects: A Discussion on the Industry’s Past, Present and Future
Together with the green jobs and wind energy industry’s growth, the average size of install wind farm projects have also grown. In 2007, installed projects averaged about 91 MW. This size is over 30% below the average project size of 120 MW in 2009. Wind farm project sizes change because of a number of reasons.
Possible reasons could be: increasing wind power demands; increasing turbine sizes; continued practice of large turbine orders which reached up until the 2008/2009 credit crisis; partnership of project developers so such orders can be supported; and the increasing turbine and project costs. Whatever the reason may be, larger project sizes are a manifestation of an increasingly mature energy source that is making its way into the domestic electricity market.
In 2007, strengthening of the wind energy business had slowed down. But by the final quarter of 2009, it had normalized at 2008’s tempo. 2007’s slowdown may have been caused by several factors, along with an opinion within the industry that many of the prime targets for wind power investment were already acquired in earlier years. Continue reading
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BLOGOSPHERE GOES “GREEN”: THEY’VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY
The online world offers a lot of opportunities for Internet users to air out their opinions, comments, thoughts and suggestions. Take the blogosphere, for example. The blogosphere is composed of all blogs as well as their connections.
In the realm of the blogosphere, everybody has a lot to say. One of the topics that have been a hot discussion is on America’s push for a greener economy and environment. So, here’s what the bloggers are talking about in the blogosphere:
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