“Stringing power lines is stringing power lines,” Keefe said. “We’re just doing it better and more efficiently and hooking them up to the right places that need it to move some of the renewable energy that we’re producing now where it needs to be.”
E2: Administration takes a “whole of economy” approach to climate action WASHINGTON (March 31, 2021) – President Biden will outline his plan for rebuilding America’s infrastructure in a speech later today in Pittsburgh. Biden’s American Jobs Plan will focus on how smart investments in priorities such as ensuring safe drinking water, modernizing the energy grid, […]
According to the national, nonpartisan business group E2, at the end of 2019 there were nearly 94,000 clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania. Pre-COVID-19, these jobs were increasing at a roughly 5% annual growth rate, a reflection of all those environmental and social governance fund inflows hitting the local labor market.
“Commissioned by a triad of clean energy advocates — E2, E4TheFuture and the American Council on Renewable Energy — BW Research’s reports on the state of the workforce have served as the basis of campaigns pushing for new federal policies to stoke clean energy growth.
“The industry’s claims about economic damage from Biden’s energy policies don’t make much sense, given that the fast-growing clean energy sector is rapidly adding jobs and employs 3.3 million workers nationwide, compared with 1.2 million fossil fuel jobs. The environmental entrepreneurship group E2 has found that a $99 billion in federal clean energy stimulus would […]
In 2020, Nevada renewable energy employment was projected to increase by 4.3 percent, adding about 1,500 jobs – a rate almost twice as fast as the overall economy grew in 2019. However, an analysis by E2 Clean Jobs America, a business group, shows that 11 percent of the pre-covid clean energy workforce who lost their jobs due […]
33,700 Nevadans worked in clean energy before pandemic hit in 2020 LAS VEGAS – Projected to add 1,500 workers in 2020, Nevada’s clean energy economy lost nearly 4,000 after a tumultuous year driven by the global COVID-19 economic crisis. Despite losing 11% of its workforce, clean energy remains the state’s leader for energy sector jobs […]
“It sends a signal to the market that the federal government wants to buy a lot of solar panels, and they want them made in America,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a business group that advocates for clean energy jobs. “Somebody is going to figure out how to do that. It’s as simple […]
With a new Administration focused as never before on climate, a changing Congress and the ongoing pandemic – it will be critical for renewable energy companies to understand the outlook for executive, regulatory and legislative action over the coming year. The ACORE Policy Forum will convene leaders from across government and the renewable energy industry for […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted to confirm former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, making her just the second woman to lead the department since its creation in 1977. As governor, Granholm helped steer Michigan’s economy toward clean energy and electric vehicles following the 2008 financial crisis, leading […]
Oregon’s clean energy industry expected to gain 2,831 jobs in 2020, but instead lost 6,055, according to advocates for policies that support the sector.
It’s been digging out of a hole since losing around 9,500 jobs from March through May last year, when the pandemic hit, a report from Environmental Entrepreneurs, or E2, and Oregon Business for Climate says.
Currently, the clean energy industry, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean fuels, and clean vehicles, has a 9% unionization rate, according to an October report from Environmental Entrepreneurs, the American Council on Renewable Energy, the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, and BW Research Partners. Those groups said that the rate was slightly higher than the economy’s overall unionization […]