25 Oct '12, 2pm

U.S. Solar Employment Faces Bright Future as Wind Jobs Flutter #solarenergy #windpower

U.S. Solar Employment Faces Bright Future as Wind Jobs Flutter #solarenergy #windpower

CleanEdison expects about 36,600 people will be certified as technical employees in the U.S. solar industry in 2020, including positions such as installers, the New York-based provider of clean-energy training programs said today in a statement. That’s a 24 percent increase since 2010, compared with wind jobs, which are expected to grow 14 percent to 27,700. Surging use of solar energy in the U.S is driving employment, said Avi Yashchin, CleanEdison’s chief executive officer. U.S. developers may install as much as 3.9 gigawatts of panels next year, up from a forecasted 2.9 gigawatts to 3.3 gigawatts this year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That’s creating employment opportunities in a variety of fields. “I see electricians going into the solar market, structural steel companies going into constructing solar mounting systems,” Yashchin said in an interview. “If...

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