Renewable Energy Job Boom Creates Economic Opportunity As Coal Industry Slumps

The renewable energy industry has become a major U.S. employer. E2’s recent Clean Jobs America report found nearly 3.3 million Americans ... added nearly 150,000 news jobs since 2010 and expects ... Read More

Is Energy a Good Career Field?

According to the International Labour Organization, worldwide employment in renewable energy reached 12.7 million in 2021, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in only one year. Fossil fuels, unlike ... Read More

Jobs Report: Strong Hiring Dims Fed Rate-Cut Hopes, But S&P 500 Futures Rise

For all of 2024, markets are pricing in a year-end Fed funds rate of 4.71%, up from 4.66% ahead of the jobs report. That builds in 57% odds of at least three quarter-point rate cuts. S&P 500 ... Read More

Renewable Energy Is Now The Cheapest Option - Even Without Subsidies

In recent years, the world has marched towards renewable energy. According to a new report by the International ... Agreements (PPAs) rise, meanwhile more than 10 million people are now employed ... Read More

Gov. Josh Shapiro announces renewable energy initiative

Pennsylvania is the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power, according to the Shapiro administration. Read More

Renewable energy push paced by rising costs

The Mau News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Molokai ... the cooperative succeeded in reaching an almost 70 percent renewable energy threshold last year. Hawaiian Electric had predicted years ago that ... Read More

Energy Department Gets Power Over Big Grid Projects

In a bid to fast track grid-infrastructure construction, the department is set to become the lead federal agency coordinating environmental approval of major transmission projects, providing a ... Read More

Renewable Energy News

17, 2024 — Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However ... can be efficiently released electrochemically, report scientists. Through a series of experiments ... Read More

Pre-apprenticeship program trains new Mainers for jobs in renewable energy

SOUTH PORTLAND — Pierre Dende, an asylum seeker who lives in Portland, hopes to take advantage of industry demand for workers in renewable energy ... of nearly 3 million jobs a year if ... Read More

MECO on track to beat renewable energy goals

The Maui News / CHRIS SUGIDONO photo KAHULUI — Maui Electric Co. is marching toward 100 percent renewable ... toward solar energy. Suzuki said she does not foresee any loss of jobs, but some ... Read More

What is renewable energy?

to renewable energy is key to addressing the climate crisis. Renewables are now cheaper in most countries, and generate three times more jobs than fossil fuels. Solar energy is the most abundant ... Read More