America’s leading manufacturer of solar panels First Solar has followed its already lackluster third quarter earnings report posted earlier this month with further bad news, announcing plans to cut 1,600 jobs, and revising its full-year 2016 guidance only a fortnight after it had already done so.
A new study out of Duke University has shown that during the four years following the 2008 recession, the US coal industry lost more than 49,000 jobs, while at the same time the natural gas, solar, and wind industries across the country created nearly four times as many jobs as … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath Falling demand has sent Australia’s rooftop solar market into a decline that could lead to more than 3,400 job losses over the next 12 months, according to a report commissioned by industry body REC Agents Association (RAA). The report by Green Energy Markets … [continued]
