Alternative Energy Updates: America’s Economic Future Depends On It

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Alternative Energy Updates: America's Economic Future Depends On It

November 21, 2008




Twenty-nine states have enacted renewable energy standards to compel development of wind, solar, and other alternative energy sources in the utility industry. Clean energy production and development is a $25 billion-a-year industry, and the fastest growing industrial sector in the country. Clean energy is responsible for an estimated 500,000 new jobs since 2004, according to figures from states, investment analysts, and the wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean energy trade associations.

What's needed from the federal government, say executives and elected leaders is the same thing that The New Apollo Program advocates and that President-elect Obama says he will act on quickly: A big, focused investment program to much more quickly scale up the clean energy tools and technology that already exist.

Millions of family-supporting jobs are possible. Leo Gerard, the president of the United Steelworkers of America and an Apollo Alliance board member, is fond of telling audiences that it takes 26 tons of sheet steel and 19,000 parts to make and install a wind turbine generator.

Thinking Green,

Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Green Party of Ohio

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