ComEd announced that work related to the Smart Grid program created nearly 2,700 full-time equivalent jobs in the first quarter of 2013. These include nearly 900 direct full-time equivalent jobs at the utility and its contractors as submitted in a report to the Illinois Commerce Commission, plus nearly 1,800 indirect full-time equivalent positions. via TedMag.com Continue reading →
On Thursday, the City of Chicago announced that electric delivery truck maker Smith Electric Vehicles has agreed to open a new factory, “creating hundreds of direct and indirect jobs and boosting the already rapidly growing battery and electric vehicle sector in the City.” via Smith Electric Vehicles to Build Chicago Plant.
Did you hear about the recent Stanford study that concluded that organic food doesn’t deliver more nutrients than conventionally-grown food? So what? Consumers don’t buy organic food to get more vitamins and minerals. Consumers buy organic to avoid the pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides present in conventionally-grown food. Similarly, the motivation for food “locavores” isn’t about Continue reading →
In a refreshing counterpoint to the coal and oil apologists who attack clean energy jobs and investment in Nevada, a group called the Small Business Majority today released a poll that shows strong support for clean energy and smart energy policies in the Silver State. The poll conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research found 61 percent of Continue reading →
Passage of a ballot measure requiring 25% of Michigan’s total energy resources to come from renewables by 2025 would create at least 74,000 new jobs and also would bring in more than $10 billion in investments, according to a study released by Michigan State University Friday. The results were announced by supporters of the Michigan Continue reading →
On the campaign trail in Colorado Thursday President Obama assailed Mitt Romney for opposing the tax break for wind energy production, saying the presumptive nominee would put tens of thousands of jobs at risk by letting them expire. “At a moment when homegrown energy, renewable energy, is creating new jobs in states like Colorado and Continue reading →
Energy giant E.ON today announced the launch of a smart meter customer service centre in Bolton, creating 85 jobs. The new smart metering centre of excellence will be at the Parklands office park, at Middlebrook, Horwich, and will offer advice for customers with smart meters or those who want them. Smart meters send electronic meter Continue reading →
There has been a lot of talk about green jobs lately – not least of all from Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who earlier this week told the Rio+20 Summit that the Australian government was doing its bit (carbon pricing, funding renewables) to drive a push to end global poverty by creating green jobs. via Who Continue reading →
Tens of millions of new jobs can be created around the world in the next two decades if green policies are put in place to switch the high-carbon economy to low-carbon, the UN has said. Between 15m and 60m additional jobs are likely, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep). Continue reading →
The blueprint announced by First Minister Alex Salmond at a conference in Aberdeen is accompanied by a target to create 12,000 new jobs by 2020. It is claimed that Scotland already has world-class research in smart grids and related technologies. The strategy was developed by a working group of academics and individuals from industry and Continue reading →
What exactly is a smart grid? You’ll probably get a different response every time you ask the question (that is, if you don’t get a blank stare). Maggie Koeth Baker, science editor at BoingBoing.net, put it well in an article last week. The smart grid isn’t a single thing, she wrote: “A smart grid is Continue reading →
More than 20,000 additional jobs could be created in the sustainable energy sector by 2020, according to an analysis by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The sector currently supports 10,000 jobs and this figure could treble by 2020. It expects that 13,000 jobs could be created and supported in renewable energy and energy Continue reading →
A trade group reveals that 190 companies in Illinois and any number of startup firms are capable of winning new business and adding jobs based on ComEd’s plans to spend $2.6 billion upgrading its electric grid. Those 190 companies include 54 already working on smart-grid projects and 136 that work in some area of the Continue reading →
The City of Big Shoulders will be doing some heavy smart-grid lifting in the near future, as its main utility company embarks on a 10-year, $2.6 billion upgrade to the electricity system. Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) says the project will deliver something like a local economic stimulus to Chicago, generating up to 2,400 full-time equivalents jobs Continue reading →
An upgrade of the city’s electrical system will begin this year and create about 2,400 jobs for Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and ComEd Chief Executive Anne Pramaggiore announced Wednesday. As part of the jobs announcement, two out-of-state businesses plan to established offices here, and a new venture fund will be set up for energy-related businesses. via ComEd’s smart-grid plan to create Continue reading →
Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) is to open a £7m energy centre in Wales which will create 250 new jobs. SSE is investing £5m in a new energy centre which will provide renewable energy training facilities and be home to a green operational centre. The new centre will be built in Treforest. via SSE To Continue reading →
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center released the 2011 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Report this month, just a few weeks after the failures of solar firms Solyndra and Evergreen triggered a fierce debate about the prospects for green jobs in the US and the wisdom of government investment in clean energy. The answer to this $64,000 Continue reading →
The Obama administration announced a few hours ago that it will “accelerate the permitting and construction of seven proposed electric transmission lines” to help create jobs and support the growth of renewable energy around the U.S. via Obama Announces Job-Creating Grid Modernization Projects | CleanTechnica.
