It's Time to Change the Narrative About Clean Energy

I have not tried to fact-check any of this, but it's pretty interesting. It's Time to Change the Narrative About Clean Energy:

Between 2014 and 2015, the solar industry alone created one out of every 78 jobs in the United States. If including wind, LED lighting, and other clean energy categories, that number could be closer to one in 33. For the solar industry, a majority of these new jobs are blue-collar construction and manufacturing jobs that pay an average of $21 per hour – far higher than the $16-per-hour, non-union manufacturing jobs touted by South Carolina later in that episode.

...the solar industry has hired more veterans than anyone else, retrained coal workers, and even found a soft landing for oil and gas workers who had lost their jobs. The vast majority of solar and wind workers are trained in less than six months because their previous work experience and training is completely transferrable.

In 2015, the manufacturing part of the solar and wind industries had over 100,000 people making pieces and parts in the United States. This indicates a 20 percent increase, or over 20,000 more people, since the previous year. In fact, this number is only expected to continue to grow at that rate for the next five years.

Independence is the heart of American identity. Clean energy is independence turned into electrons.

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