Today, our nation is focused on economic recovery – and creating well-paying jobs has become the number-one priority for most policymakers. Recently, green jobs has become a popular, but not well-defined, term.
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) believes that green jobs will come in different shades of green. Sure, jobs involving wind and solar generation or improvements in energy efficiency will be considered green jobs … but so will jobs associated with the deployment of advanced clean coal technologies … including technologies that will capture and safely store CO2. Read more +
In early 2009, ACCCE, along with four of America’s largest industrial trade unions, commissioned a study to determine the employment benefits of building advanced coal plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The study concluded that 5 to 7 million man-years of employment could be created during construction and a quarter of a million permanent jobs added during operations, depending on how many CCS-equipped plants are deployed. (A man-year represents one job for one man or woman for a one-year duration.) Obviously, these jobs will make a big difference to local economies. ACCCE asked the BBC Research Group (the authors of the original study) to project where these new green jobs will be located, and you can check out that information here.
The green jobs associated with CCS projects offer both good salaries for high-skilled workers and the opportunity for sustained employment. <<
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