{"id":276404,"date":"2010-02-04T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:06:14","slug":"renewable-electricity-standard-it%e2%80%99s-about-the-jobs%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276404","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Electricity Standard: It\u2019s About the Jobs\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/wind.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RESlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6069\" title=\"RESlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RESlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) of 25 percent by 2025 would add 274,000 new green energy jobs, particularly in the Southeast, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.res-alliance.org\/res-jobs-study\">a new study<\/a> funded by an industry group.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by Navigant Consulting for the RES Alliance for Jobs, found that an RES would prevent the long-term stagnation of the wind industry and the collapse of the U.S. biomass industry.<span id=\"more-6065\"><\/span>The study itself is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.res-alliance.org\/public\/RESAllianceNavigantJobsStudy.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The RES Alliance is an industry group that includes General Electric, Vestas, the American Wind Energy Association and Iberdola.<\/p>\n<p>The study also calls for near-term RES targets of 12 percent by 2014 and 20 percent by 2020 which would attract the necessary long-term investment.<\/p>\n<p>Texas, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Florida would stand to gain the most jobs according to the analysis. Most of the jobs would come in manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/j-nBrJo4dLc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) of 25 percent by 2025 would add 274,000 new green energy jobs, particularly in the Southeast, according to a new study funded by an industry group. The study, conducted by Navigant Consulting for the RES Alliance for Jobs, found that an RES would prevent the long-term stagnation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}