Articles in the Wind Jobs Category
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According to a report organized by the Iowa Policy Project, a nonprofit Iowa-based research group, wind energy accounts for up to 20 percent of statewide electricity production and maintains reduced power costs – among the lowest in the…
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UK-based Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has disclosed its plans to develop the world’s largest indoor infrastructure capable of deploying and testing next-generation offshore wind turbines. The test-rig will allow turbines to be examined onshore and indoors before being taken offshore, which will help to lower electricity costs and decrease technical risks associated with mass production. In addition to providing lower overhead costs, the initiative…
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Over the past decade, the renewable energy sector has grown at a solid pace; accumulating new green jobs at more than twice the normal rate, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts. “The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments across America” report shows a first ever tally of actual green jobs, venture capital investments and companies which supply…
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Assembly Bill 522 was recently proposed to initiate a Nevada State Energy Commission, which will help educate the public about saving energy, ease and accelerate thegreen-energy-nevada permit/lease process developers need from the Federal Bureau of Land Management to begin renewable energy, collect information about the companies to certify they meet tax decrease specifications and manage rebate programs for renewable energy development ventures. Previously, such duties…
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The 2009 AWEA Windpower Conference kicked off yesterday in the windy city of Illinois, with some excellent news regarding bipartisan support for renewable energy. The polling was conducted by Garin Hart Yang Research Group and found that 75% of voters favored the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), which requires utilities to produce at least 25 percent of their electricity from renewable energy resources by the year 2025. The polling revealed bipartisan support for the RES…
