{"id":534650,"date":"2010-04-19T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:04:02","slug":"solar-industry-in-2009-17000-more-jobs-37-increase-in-capacity-major-drop-in-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534650","title":{"rendered":"Solar Industry in 2009: 17,000 More Jobs, 37% Increase in Capacity, Major Drop in Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/US-Solar-Industry-Employment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/US-Solar-Industry-Employment.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"US Solar Industry Employment\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the economic recession, the solar industry grew significantly in 2009. The solar industry added <strong>17,000 jobs<\/strong> to the US economy in 2009. Installed solar capacity grew by approximately 37%. And we saw a serious drop in the cost of solar. (more info and graphs below)<\/p>\n<p>46,000 jobs are supported by the solar industry now, but that number is expected to climb to over 60,000 by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/19\/solar-industry-in-2009-17000-more-jobs-37-increase-in-capacity-major-drop-in-costs\/#more-8489\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the economic recession, the solar industry grew significantly in 2009. The solar industry added 17,000 jobs to the US economy in 2009. Installed solar capacity grew by approximately 37%. And we saw a serious drop in the cost of solar. (more info and graphs below) 46,000 jobs are supported by the solar industry now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534650","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\/4948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}