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U.S. Could Miss Out On 250,000 Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs
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Winning the Race: How America Can Lead the Global Clean Energy Economy
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The U.S. could miss out on 100,000 clean energy manufacturing jobs by 2015 and 250,000 by 2030 if current industry trends continue, according to a new report by the Apollo Alliance and Good Jobs First. The report, Winning the Race: How America Can Lead the Global Clean Energy Economy, estimates that 70 percent of the nation’s renewable energy systems and components are currently being manufactured abroad.


“We are quickly losing the chance to be a leader in what will be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century: the global clean energy economy,” Apollo Alliance Chairman Phil said in a press release announcing the report’s release. “While other countries are making massive investments in clean energy infrastructure and production-and creating tens of thousands of new jobs as a result-the United States doesn’t even have the capacity to meet its own demand for renewable energy components.”

The new report comes at a time when some lawmakers are growing concerned that foreign owned clean energy manufacturing companies are receiving large sums of federal stimulus money. Senators Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, Charles Schumer, and Jon Tester have introduced legislation designed to ensure that federal investments in clean energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act go to American owned manufacturing companies.

“It is a no-brainer that stimulus funds should only go to projects that create jobs in the United States rather than overseas,” Senator Schumer said in a press release posted on his website. Our domestic clean-energy sector has the potential to emerge as a global leader and it is counterproductive to invest U.S. stimulus funds in Chinese companies rather than our own. We should not be giving China a head start in this race at our own country’s expense.”

China is currently the winning the race to become the global leader of the growing clean energy manufacturing sector, according to the report. China’s rise to the top has been fueled by an investment in clean energy technology that is estimated to equal $12.6 million every hour. China isn’t alone on this front. Together, Japan and South Korea have invested more than four times as much in clean energy than the U.S.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act represented a $110 billion federal investment in clean energy, providing new funding for advanced batteries, energy efficiency, high-speed rail, renewable energy, and smart grid technology. Those investments may already be paying off. The report cites Obama administration statistics estimating that 826,000 clean energy jobs have already by created by the stimulus package. The Recovery Act is also expected to create 30,000 manufacturing jobs in the clean energy sector.

Even with those new jobs, America’s manufacturing sector is in serious trouble. The study notes that the U.S. economy has lost a total of 5.7 million manufacturing jobs during the past decade, 2 million of those since 2007. If clean energy is going to be the solution to the nation’s manufacturing woes, more work needs to be done.

The report suggests that passing comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation is one way to spur the growth of the clean energy manufacturing sector in the U.S. Congress is close to doing just that. Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America Clean Energy and Security Act. That bill would lead to a net increase of 1.7 million jobs in 10 years, according to analysis conducted by the Center for America Progress and the Political Economy Research Institute that was cited in the new report. It could also create more than 320,000 new manufacturing jobs in the clean energy sector. The Senate is now considering a similar bill, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.

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Posted By slydog slydog | about 12 hours ago
The impasse of present US Politics reminds me of that old Army adage.."Hurry up and wait!" :-(
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Posted By vernoncrumrine Vernon Crumrine | about 10 hours ago
Maybe it's all there right in front of me, and I'm just overlooking the obvious. Probably am, as a matter of fact. But just for me, could you define the term "clean" energy, please. You did mention this: "...for advanced batteries, energy efficiency, high-speed rail, renewable energy, and smart grid technology". If any or all of those things listed are considered to be "clean energy", could you explain why that is? I worked in the energy industry for well over 40 years and have heard all the TV commercials telling us that natural gas and even coal can be (according to current oil and gas industry experts) considered clean. Although I worked most of my career within the confines of an office, I also did my time in the fields as well. And knowing what I know from my own experiences, I find that calling any fossil fuels "clean" is largely a matter of semantics. But I would appreciate a bit more from you in terms of what "clean energy" actually may be. Thanks!
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Posted By Ross1776 Ross1776 | about 10 hours ago
I am loving all these debates about "clean energy." So 1970's really. I mean we have been attempting to get "clean energy" for almost 40 years, but politically it never happens due to those that are profiting from both the status quo, or those that talk the talk, but when it comes right down to it, don't walk the walk.

Like all those "green" environmentalists of the 1970's and 1960's, when wind and solar were on the upswing, but didn't want those ugly towers in their backyards, nor did they want their next door neighbor to have one of those ugly solar panel. The socialists are just as bad as the corporate vipers when it comes to true "change."

Don't you think we have the technology right now to actually create a wind powered automobile. I mean stick a big fan in the back, and fan pushes the car, right? How simple can that be, I mean we have split the atom, and created the nuclear bomb, and put a man on the moon.

But then, the states of Louisiana and Texas would then suffer in job losses is the story. But really it is those oil barons that would suffer the greatest losses. And yet the carbon monoxide (not CO2) is what is creating a great deal of these cancers that are now being politically linked to "second hand smoke."

Right.

And then we are building multi-billion dollar nuclear reactors, and selling them to foreigners so that just maybe the start of World War III now could be in this country, and in our own backyard.

Totally insane. And yet branding all those that see this lunacy for what it is as either "right wing extremists" or "conspiracty theorist."

The young and the boomers have eyes that are much more aware than those of at least the Korea/World War II generations left at this point.

And the media spins getting wider and deeper each and every day.
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Posted By Ross1776 Ross1776 | about 8 hours ago
China the leader in "clean energy." I'm with Mr. Crumrine. Just what is China defining as "clean energy," since their toxic waste beats ours by literally tons.
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Posted By Ross1776 Ross1776 | about 8 hours ago
It appears you are from New Hampshire. One of those blue states. Are you sure you don't work for the Pentagon, or are a federal employee with a report such as this. No offense, but China a leader in clean energy?
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Posted By GreenReporter GreenReporter | about 1 hour ago
China is considered the leader in clean energy manufacturing. That does not mean that they get all of their energy from clean energy sources, although they have made progress on that front. It means they build the most renewable energy systems and/or related components (solar panels, wind turbines, etc...).

What is clean energy? As Mr. Crumrine notes, the term clean energy has been thrown around a lot in recent years. For example, the report discussed in this includes advanced batteries, energy efficiency, high-speed rail, renewable energy, and smart grid technology in its definition of clean energy. Each of these can help to reduce the amount of energy produced by burning fossil fuels, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other types of air pollution. That is why they are considered "clean energy". Biofuels, wind, solar, and hydro power are all forms of renewable energy.

Then there is "clean coal". The idea behind this is that coal power can be cleaned up by using technology to remove harmful emissions. Scrubber technology is already being used to help reduce pollution from coal burning power plants. However, these existing technologies do not eliminate harmful emissions altogether. The industry also readily admits that "clean coal" technology designed to address the problems of carbon emissions and climate change do not currently exist.

Environmentalists would also argue that coal doesn't just pollute the air when it is burned for energy. It is also mined through destructive processes like mountaintop removal. There have also been several major accidents involving coal ash spills in recent years. For example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/americas/07iht-sludge.4.19164565.html

Then there is nuclear power. Nuclear power plants create energy without producing greenhouse gases. Therefore proponents have worked hard to redefine nuclear power as "clean energy." Of course these plants also produce nuclear waste, which is often stored on site for lack of anything else to do with it. Indeed, the problem of how to safely deal nuclear waste in the long term remains unsolved. This makes it hard for some to swallow the idea that nuclear power is truly clean. The industry also has a history of high profile accidents at U.S. plants, some of which were poorly managed. The current Vermont Yankee controversy is a case in point:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2010/02/25/vt_senate_votes_to_close_yankee_power_plant/
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