Gathering in London for the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), energy ministers and secretaries from 23 governments around the world joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s Sustainable Energy for All program (SE4All) in committing to promote improved energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies and increased energy access around the world.
There’s a growing supply of relatively high-paying energy efficiency, green collar and renewable energy jobs and careers in a diverse, growing green energy sector, according to an AEE survey. Driving hiring is a dwindling supply of US energy professionals.
Beset by economic and financial troubles, Italy’s efforts to spur solar power installations have been a remarkable success, so much so that the government’s cutting back its feed-in tariff. It’s also enacting a new carbon tax.
France stands to come out ahead economically and environmentally as it awarded an initial five offshore wind power contracts that will result in the first 3,000 MW of a planned 6,000 MW of offshore wind power come online by 2020. So do EDF, Alstom, Dong Energy, Iberdrola and Eoles-Res, among others.
Renewable energy and clean tech present great opportunities to revitalize US manufacturing, potential that’s recognized by a growing group of business and political leaders, including the Obama administration. […]
