Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Do 116,000 U.S. jobs already depend on government renewable energy subsidies?

Here.

Excerpt:
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) hired Navigant Consulting to do a study about the impacts that a non-renewal of renewable energy tax credits by the U.S. Congress would have. Here's what they found: Over 116,000 U.S. jobs and nearly $19 billion in U.S. investment could be lost in just one year. Approximately 76,000 jobs are at risk in the wind industry, and approximately 40,000 in the solar industry.
Over at Coyote Blog, I found this:
By the way, as a sense of scale, after 35 years of subsidies and mandates, renewables (other than hydro) make up ... about .27% of US generation.
If the figures for number of jobs and the amount of renewable energy produced are correct, it appears that we have a large number of jobs that are producing a very small amount of electricity.

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