Energy Efficiency Creates Jobs
Increasing energy efficiency will create tens of thousands of jobs.
Increased efficiency and GHG reductions can create 403,000 jobs.
Next 10's report, "Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Job Creation in California," said that if California improves energy efficiency by one percent per year and meets proposed cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, it will create 403,000 jobs by 2020 and increase the state's gross product by $76 billion.
Upgrading your home or business will help employ a local worker.
- Energy efficiency requires spending money on jobs, not on power plants or machinery.
- Efficiency jobs cross all skill and income levels, from insulation installers to high-tech electrical engineers.
- Green efficiency jobs rely on local labor and keep money in the community.
What better way to stimulate our economy than by putting people to work in jobs that will cut energy use, cut greenhouse gas emissions and save billions of dollars.
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- Green Energy Projects Promise to Create Three Times as Many Jobs as Fossil Fuel Investments — Green investments will create about seventeen jobs for every $1 million in outlays, whereas spending the same $1 million in the oil and coal industries creates only about 5.5 jobs.
- Green Job Training and Rebate Program Bolsters Local Economy — Richmond CA has a first-in-the-nation program to link solar rebates to locally trained workers.
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