- What to do with coal workers? Retrain them for solar, says study – RenewEconomy
RenewEconomyWhat to do with coal workers? Retrain them for solar, says study
RenewEconomy
As is the case in Australia, US solar jobs already outnumber jobs in the coal sector; Pearce and Louie note that as of November 2015, America's solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, compared to roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic … - Miller Contracting wins bid for Career Connections Center – Delphos Herald
Miller Contracting wins bid for Career Connections Center
Delphos Herald
All seven also submitted bids for the solar panel project that accompanies the center and County Electric submitted a bid for the solar panel project only. County Electric was … The center will be a field trip destination for students in grades 7-12 … - Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center Aims to Be Poster Child of Sustainability & Collaboration – WUWM
WUWMNorthern Great Lakes Visitor Center Aims to Be Poster Child of Sustainability & Collaboration
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With its sweeping 180 acres before him, US Forest Service program manager Jason Maloney beams as he watches a crew erecting the infrastructure to support four rows of solar panels – 100 kilowatts' worth. The work – and the effort to fund it – goes back …
and more » - How US Solar Is Doing So Far This Year – And What The Industry Needs To Do Ahead – Solar Industry
Solar IndustryHow US Solar Is Doing So Far This Year – And What The Industry Needs To Do Ahead
Solar Industry
With Rhone Resch's departure from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) – an organization he led for over a decade – earlier this year, it's time to reflect and consider where SEIA should next focus its boundless energies. And in my …
and more » - Trump talks economics – Politico
Trump talks economics
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ROOM AT THE SOLAR INN: Employment growth in the solar industry could benefit recently and soon-to-be unemployed coal workers, according to a new study from Michigan Technological University Professor Joshua M. Pearce, published in the Harvard Business …
and more » - Development board spends on infrastructure, private industry – Casper Journal
Development board spends on infrastructure, private industry
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Work on the new infrastructure is beginning this year, and Pepper said prior to the economic downturn in mineral industry, FabTech committed to bringing in new jobs, as well as keeping 130 to 140 existing jobs. “They've held those jobs to this point … - Study addresses the connection between technology development and emissions-reduction policies – Phys.Org
Phys.OrgStudy addresses the connection between technology development and emissions-reduction policies
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Now, an MIT analysis shows that if countries meet their emissions-reduction pledges to the Paris climate agreement, the cost of electricity from solar photovoltaic systems could drop by 50 percent and from wind systems by 25 percent between now and …
and more » - What If All US Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar? – Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business ReviewWhat If All US Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?
Harvard Business Review
Our study (published in the journal Energy Economics) quantified the costs and benefits of retraining coal workers for employment in the rapidly expanding solar photovoltaic industry—and it explores different ways to pay for this retraining. First … - Can We Help the Losers in Climate Change? – MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology ReviewCan We Help the Losers in Climate Change?
MIT Technology Review
But since 2012, with the availability of cheap natural gas and the ramping up of environmental regulations to control emissions from coal-fired power plants, that decline has become a full-scale collapse: coal-mining employment has shrunk from 89,800 …
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