The village of Castañer, Puerto Rico has been selected to receive support for a solar energy microgrid project, as part of an initiative led by The Solar Foundation and Pathstone Corp. to strengthen and expand the solar industry in Puerto Rico and build more resilient communities. The microgrid project will include a solar energy and battery storage … [continued]
Ed Gilliand, the senior director of the Solar Foundation, the premier source of census information on employment in the US solar industry, recently offered CleanTechnica an interview about why he is so optimistic on job growth for the sector.
More solar jobs are in store for 2019, despite President* Trump’s tariffs on key supplies including solar cells, solar modules, steel, and aluminum.
US Energy Dept. touts solar as “the next great American industry” (no, really!), sets up the solar jobs pipeline for a major expansion.
Schools are increasingly turning to solar as a pathway to embracing clean renewable energy.
MSNBC gets a lot of things right. In fact, it may be the best mainstream media outlet when it comes to focusing on what’s important and when it comes to keeping nonsensical political spin off its shows. However, it seems the outlet doesn’t know energy.
The US solar industry lost nearly 10,000 jobs in 2017 according to latest figures from the National Solar Job Census 2017 published this week by The Solar Foundation, the first year that jobs have decreased since the Foundation began publishing its Census in 2010.
Despite Trump’s happy talk about coal jobs, the Energy Department is funding a coal-killing solar energy program that helps cities and town accelerate the renewable energy transition.
Hot off the presses, a new report released today by SEIA, The Solar Foundation, and Generation 180 shows vast growth in solar on K-12 schools in the United States.
Donald Trump says he wants to create American jobs, but he is cool to the idea of renewable energy, which he claims is “too expensive.” Don’t tell that to the US military, however. Last year, the Navy broke ground on a 4 megawatt (MW) solar array at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Mississippi and the Army completed a large 30 MW solar array at Fort Benning, Georgia. Many soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan have seen first hand how human and economic resources are wasted to protect fossil fuel assets. After serving, they are also finding jobs in the solar industry.
