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California's Solar Industry Seems Poised For Stellar Growth
By: Kevin Fleming - Monday, December 10, 2007
Source: Renewable Energy Access.com
California's $3,000,000,000 State budget and the promise of 40,000 new jobs, with more than $325mln in venture capital from silicon ValleyInvestors, Solar energy is well on its way to a major job category.
Solar Technician (Installer) is a new occupation that appeared only a couple decades ago. However, with the accelerated growth of the solar energy industry, demand for qualified installers, maintenance and repairers in this field is quickly growing.
California, which has the most aggressive solar program in the country, presently accounting for 73% of all the U.S. solar installations, is projected to create 3,578 jobs for Photovoltaic (PV) System Installers and 780 for Solar Thermal System Installers by 2015 and possible sooner.
In part due to incentives provided by the California Solar Initiative (CSI), legislated in 2006, the solar energy market is expected to explode. Major solar energy employers state that CSI has a “tremendous psychological impact on the industry, giving solar companies a much longer planning horizon to work with, greater confidence in making investments, more volume and market growth, and ultimately a faster pace of innovation."
At this pace, the optimistic employment projections by the state are that solar energy will open 40,000 new construction and maintenance jobs by 2016, with Solar Technician being at least one third of that total.
to reply to the Sacramento Utility District RFP go to:www.bids.smud.org
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