Local Green Jobs Rise as SF Solar and Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs Expand
These additional funds will allow the companies that provide energy efficiency services to add an additional 30 new employees on top of the 150 already employed.
SF Energy Watch and GoSolarSF help build the local economy and develop a skilled local workforce for the exploding green tech industry. But most importantly, these jobs are sustainable. They are not based on a single project, so when completed, the jobs do not disappear. Instead, these programs are open-ended, and in the case of GoSolarSF, supported by city legislation that helps feed the process. And I can see a time coming shortly when residential and commercial energy efficiency will be required by local or even statewide mandates.
On a final related note, last September I announced the Mayor’s Solar Founders’ Circle. This initiative served to inject an important new element in our solar efforts: providing free energy efficiency audits together with solar assessments for any business or non-profit in the City that wants it. This “efficiency first” approach is the smartest path to cost savings when planning to go solar. Energy efficiency improvements to a property will decrease the size of the solar array needed to cut utility bills.
Related:
- A Green Future for All Americans (by Gavin Newsom)
- SF-Based 1 Block Off the Grid’s Community Solar Initiative Expanding to 20 US Cities
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