Tag: solar

Calif.’s Solar Industry Employs More People than State’s Utilities

It’s widely known that the solar industry is creating a lot of jobs, but some figures presented at an energy conference yesterday put that job performance in a new light. The California solar industry now employs almost 55,000 people, more than the state’s three major utilities — Pacific Gas and […]

Have People of Color Been Locked Out of the Green Economy?

One of my first stories of 2014 was an interview with Reginald Parker, an African-American entrepreneur with a chemical engineering Ph.D. from MIT who was preparing to build one of the largest solar farms in the country. He broke ground on the project in September, in North Carolina, near an […]