By HDK / Published on Fri, 2009-06-12 07:57
A new study, which was conducted on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General Energy and Transport, is the first study to assess the economic effects of supporting renewable energy sources (RES) in detail, looking not only at jobs in the RES sector itself, but taking into account its impact on all sectors of the economy. It found that policies that support RES give a significant boost to the economy and the number of jobs in the EU.
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By Bruno De Wachter / Published on Fri, 2009-05-15 05:30
IEEE sounds the alarm, but the situation might be less bleak than it seems
According to Wanda Reder, president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society, the Green Economy development plan of US president Barack Obama will be impossible to effect due to a shortage of electrical engineers. In response to this, IEEE founded the U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative. This workgroup published its first report in April, drawing a very dark picture of the situation. Though the authors clearly have some good arguments, one must wonder if the situation is really as bad as they make it out. In the past, workforce shortages in certain professional domains have usually been solved automatically by the law of supply and demand.
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Wed, 2007-06-27 07:00
Energy policies that involve utilities (the old DSM-way) were never totally out, but are coming back strong. ACEEE has them highest on their list in a fresh study for Florida.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Thu, 2006-04-06 06:54
Via Gilberto Jannuzzi's blog (in Portuguese), we learn about another study Energy Efficiency and Job Creation (in English). This may be one of the more robust investigations on the subject. It concludes that a high efficiency scenario for the United States could create over a million jobs, create over 28 billion/year of income and save over 20 Quads of energy (1 Quad = 25 Mtoe).
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2006-03-31 07:22
A lot of grey literature exists on the employment effects of renewable energy policy, see a previous post for example, but what about the science? VWEW, the publisher for the German energy sector, has organised a symposium on the employment effects of the Renewable Energy Law in Germany, based on 4 scientific studies on the subject. The findings of the symposium have been published as part 6 in its series 'Energie im Dialog'. The report first of all defines the complex issue of employment effects in several dimensions:
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Sun, 2006-02-12 23:58
There is aspirations and talk about that measures for sustainability also should serve an instrument to create more jobs. In the EU-green paper on energy efficiency, “Doing more with less”, appendix 5 gives some evidence and offers a projection for Europe. Based on that a € invested in buildings and installations provides 4-5 times as many jobs as investments in building power supply, it is projected that 2 million man-years of employment could be created in Europe in realising the 20% energy efficiency improvement that the green paper assumes to be cost-effective.
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