Renewable Energy, Renewable Jobs

In July, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors released a report saying that the stimulus package had saved or created over 330 000 clean-energy jobs in the first half of this year. To be sure, those jobs mainly went to electricians, solar photovoltaic installers, wind-turbine technicians, and the like. But engineers, especially electrical and mechanical, will always be in demand at clean-energy companies, says Todd Stewart, project manager for a 440-megawatt concentrated solar photovoltaic project in the Mojave Desert being built by BrightSource Energy, based in Oakland, Calif. [read full article at IEEE Spectrum]