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Solar Employment Soars As Economy Lags

As of August, there are 100,237 solar jobs across all 50 states in over 5000 companies.
Despite the hoopa around Solyndra, the US solar industry  is gaining a greater share of the global market and is an economic bright spot in an otherwise sour economy.

The US is poised to install 1,750 megawatts of solar PV in 2011, double last year's total and enough to power 350,000 homes.

100,237 jobs as of August 2011, according to The Solar Foundation's "National Solar Jobs Census 2011: A Review of the U.S. Solar Workforce." The survey examines employment along the solar value chain and includes data from more than 2,100 solar companies.

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A Company Grows, and Builds a Plant Back in the U.S.A.

Today, Taphandles employs 33 people at its headquarters in Seattle and about 450 at the Chinese factory that produces the beer-marketing products it sells to breweries. But its owner, Paul Fichter, who founded the company in 1999 and anticipates $11 million in revenue this year, expects that ratio to change. Mr. Fichter, 40, just signed a lease on a 41,800-square-foot factory in Woodinville, Wash., and began manufacturing some of his products there last month.

 

A Boston Consulting Group analysis released last week found that manufacturing outsourced to China has begun to return to the United States as the economic advantages have started to shift. The analysis predicts that, with Chinese wages rising at 15 to 20 percent a year and with the continued appreciation of the renminbi against the dollar, the gap between the labor costs in Chinese coastal provinces and in America’s lower-cost states will shrink to less than 40 percent by around 2015 — and could lead to the creation of two million to three million jobs in the United States.

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VP Biden Talks About the American Jobs Act with First Responders

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