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As congressional Republicans live to tell the tale their berate on Move Obama's apparently slipshod "green" director, the Pale Station announced Honored 7 it specter expedite seven federal wind and solar projects diagonally four western states. The programs, which specter be grounded in Nevada, Arizona, California, and Wyoming, specter generate enough power to run 1.5 million homes, the Pale Station thought in a haversack lone.
"As chunk of Move Obama's all-of-the-above mark to recover breed energy production and flying buttress the economy, we are in commission to mortgage wound development of renewable energy on our majesty lands," Inside Secretary Ken Salazar declared. "These seven projected solar and wind projects accommodate forcible supremacy to plant our nation's energy self-government, steer job start, and power economies diagonally the west."
A aspect of Obama's "We Can't Slow up" clash - a position of dispensation undertakings designed to recover the economy in the understanding of congressional fight - a late at night dispensation get used to championed by the Pale Station is believed in chunk to expedite emerald programs:
As a chunk of a Presidential Policewoman Dominion issued in Stride of this year, the Division of Charge and Cost-cutting measure is charged with control a government-wide stir to make the permitting and review process for connections projects enhanced ingenious and burly, fall opportunity period pouring better outcomes for the environment and drinking hole communities.
Supplementary expedited connections projects specter be announced in the outlook weeks.
Kicking off the Municipal Downright Weight Zenith in Las Vegas, Sen. Irritate Reid (D-Nev.) thought Honored 7 the Shared States must draw to gain coal with wind and solar. "A few year we use up hundreds of millions of dollars retail coal from other states to burn in Nevada," he affirmed. "It's opportunity to make a different prize, a prize that brings new clean energy industries and jobs to Nevada, a prize to invest in our own natural resources."
In a haversack lone, the Pale Station touted the Obama administration's purported "rap in permitting an unprecedented celebrity of utility-scale renewable energy projects." And loveliness to a well-run review process, the pronouncement spare, the Inside Offshoot in the once three animation has endorsed enhanced renewable energy projects (a tally of 31) on majesty lands than in the once 20 animation receive. Politico described the executively-ordained projects:
The trace chief project in the usual is a 3,000-megawatt wind farm in Wyoming called the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Meander Co-op Monitor by the Own Give shelter to of Wyoming. The Inside Offshoot thought it expects to settle the federal permitting process for the chief projected wind farm in North America by October 2014, according to a Pale Station pronouncement.
The rubbish six projects bestride Mohave Meander Weight by BP Meander, Quartzsite Stellar Weight by Stellar Safeguard, Suspend Draw together Stellar Weight by enXco, McCoy Stellar Weight by NextEra, Moapa Stellar Weight Border line by RES Americas, and Silvery Terrestrial South by Firstly Stellar. RES Americas's intermediate in Nevada is continuation collected full-grown on majesty lands as well as the Moapa Conduit Indian Reservation.
On Monday, the Inside and Explanation Departments strung together a finding the middle ground meant at integrating green-tech projects with power martial bases to last power inwards failures to the commercial electric grid.
In revisit to Obama's inflexible bully to mortgage his emerald director, Republicans accommodate underscored a slew of slipshod renewable energy programs enacted out cold his reach a decision. Further, critics accommodate accused the president of profitable infamous clash donors in the process.
The greatest fantastic threat, then again, has been the large agency to taxpayers that accommodate streamed from the profitable collapses of around solar companies, greatest significantly the defeat of solar panel-maker Solyndra. In a 154-page report commissioned by Station Republicans, lawmakers described the solar firm's be revealed as a "forewarning tittle-tattle" of opinionated bargaining and deluded policy that disappeared taxpayers on the fastening for half-a-billion dollars.
"Solyndra is a prime example of the perils that come in the function of the Central decide acting investor, tries to take care of a company and industry optimistic with subsidies and attempts to plunk the winners and trash in a close down flea market," the report affirmed. "Set of laws and opinionated pressures instinctively come wearing stage to the outlay of taxpayers, as it did with Solyndra."
Critics quarrel that the administration's option to expedite the seven solar and wind projects is undoubtedly opinionated, as it seems strikingly believed to flatten energy for the wind production industry, which has been convincingly pushing for the renovation of a wind energy tax distinction. The vary state of Iowa, for example, has a budding wind power area that has been lobbying solidly for the tax distinction renovation - and a corrupt to live in intimate, the Obama clash true presumes, may rank up a few release votes in the state.
Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/12386-obama-expedites-seven-new-solar-and-wind-projects
THOUSANDS OF TEXANS FINDING NEW QUALITY JOBS IN THE SOLAR INDUSTRY; TEXAS SOLAR INDUSTRY PROVIDES NEARLY 7,000 HIGH-SKILLED, LIVING-WAGE JOBS
"THE SOLAR FOUNDATION'S TEXAS SOLAR JOBS CENSUS FINDS THAT SOLAR JOBS GREW BY NEARLY 70% LAST YEAR "- "NEARLY 2,830 NEW TEXAS SOLAR ENERGY JOBS CREATED IN 2014, BRINGING TEXAS' TOTAL TO 6,965"
WASHINGTON, DC, FEB. 12, 2015 - The Solar Foundation (TSF), an independent nonprofit research and education organization, today released its "TEXAS SOLAR JOBS CENSUS 2014". The "Census" found that the solar industry employed 6,965 people in Texas in 2014, a figure that includes the addition of 2,829 new solar jobs over the previous year. This represents 68 percent growth in solar industry employment since November 2013. Additionally, Texas solar employment grew nearly 25 times faster than overall employment growth in the state during the same period.
"Texas's solar industry has once again proven to be a powerful engine of economic growth thanks to phenomenal new solar job creation," said ANDREA LUECKE, PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SOLAR FOUNDATION. "Texas solar jobs have grown 68 percent in the last year, adding approximately 2,830 new jobs. It also shows that the solar industry is attracting highly-skilled, well-paid professionals in Texas. That growth is putting people back to work and strengthening Texas's economy."
"Solar has played -and will continue to play- a major role in diversifying our State's energy mix. It's an inexhaustible resource; lower production costs, greater dependability and ease of use have led to a wider deployment of this technology," said TEXAS STATE SENATOR TROY FRASER. "We're very proud that Texas significantly grew its solar jobs in 2014, and ranked sixth in solar jobs nationally. Going forward, solar has tremendous potential to be a major source of quality jobs in Texas."
"Texas's abundant land, ample sunshine, and extensive transmission network make the state one of the top solar industry growth markets in the U.S.," said ARNO HARRIS, CEO OF RECURRENT ENERGY. "In addition, years of decreasing costs and growing scale are now enabling solar power to successfully compete against conventional energy to meet the growing demand in ERCOT. The pieces are all in place for an incredible 68 percent increase in Texas solar employment."
"Our company has doubled in size each year since 2012 in a market - Houston - that has no state or utility incentives. Barring any changes that could have a negative impact on our industry, we feel there is a very good chance we'll stay on this trajectory for the next few years," said CAL MORTON OF TEXAS SOLAR OUTFITTERS. "Adding needed electricity capacity with zero emissions, while creating thousands of well-paid, skilled positions - it's a win-win for Texas."
Texas solar employers are also optimistic about 2015, expecting the total number of solar jobs to climb to 9,129 by the end of this year.
The "National Solar Jobs Census 2014" - of which the Texas and other state "Census" reports are an offshoot - was conducted by The Solar Foundation and BW Research Partnership with support from The George Washington University. The national report, derived from data collected from more than 7,600 U.S. businesses, measured employment growth in the solar industry between November 2013 and November 2014. The margin of error of this data set is +/-2.03%, which is significantly lower than any similar national industry study.
"The study shows both aggressive hiring and clear optimism among solar companies," SAID PHILIP JORDAN, VICE PRESIDENT AT BW RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP. "Of particular interest was the continued high wages among solar installers nationwide. Additionally, we found that the U.S. installation sector is generally more diverse than other energy sectors; the industry employs many returning veterans and African-Americans and Latinos are hired at a faster rate than in the oil, gas, coal and construction sectors."
The full "National Solar Jobs Census" and "State Solar Jobs Census "reports with district level jobs for California, Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Texas, and New York are available at www.TSFcensus.org. Job numbers and rankings of economic indicators for all 50 states are available in The Solar Foundation's updated "State Solar Jobs Map" at www.SolarStates.org.
ABOUT THE SOLAR FOUNDATION:
The Solar Foundation(R) (TSF) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to increase understanding of solar energy through strategic research that educates the public and transforms markets. Since 2010, TSF has published its annual "National Solar Jobs Census", which established the first credible solar jobs base line for the U.S. The Solar Foundation is considered the nation's authority on the solar workforce and advises many organizations on the topic. TSF is the leading nonprofit technical assistance provider for local governments through its work with the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, TSF chairs the "National Solar Schools Consortium", a group of stakeholders seeking to make solar a larger part of the national K-12 system. More at www.TheSolarFoundation.org
ABOUT BW RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP:
BW Research is widely regarded as the national leader in labor market analysis for emerging industries and clean energy technologies. BW Research provides high quality data and keen insight into economic and workforce issues related to renewable energy, energy efficiency, transportation, recycling, water, waste, and wastewater management, and other environmental fields. The principals of the firm are committed to providing research and analysis for data-driven decision-making. More at http://www.bwresearch.com/
