Job Forecasts and Reports

• IREC Releases 2008 Solar Market Trends Report
• Job Jolt - The Economic Impacts of Repowering the Midwest: The Clean Energy Development for the Heartland predicts that if the Midwest unleased its clean energy development potential it would create more than 200,000 new jobs, up to $5.5 billion in additional worker income, and up to $20 billion in increased economic activity across a 10-state Midwest region by 2020.
• The Renewable Energy Policy Project’s The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy report discusses the factors driving the expansion of renewable energy markets, the types of renewable energy jobs needed for these markets, and how renewable energy compares with coal energy in jobs created.
• The Renewable Energy Policy Project's Wind Turbine Development: Location of Manufacturing Activity explores the implications of implementing a federal renewable energy portfolio standard that could generate 50,000 MW of wind power and create 150,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs mostly in the 20 states that have lost the most manufacturing jobs in the last 3-1/2 years.
• The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) is one of the best places to find renewable energy workforce development information.