Solar industry brings energy to hiring
Posted on Feb 10, 2012 |
This article appeared in the San Francisco Business Times. You can access the story here (subscription).
By Lindsay Riddell
There’s plenty of opportunity for jobs in cleantech, especially for those with solar skills.
In the fourth quarter, there were 590 jobs listings for solar jobs in the Bay Area, and 326 jobs posted for energy efficiency, according to research by the SolarTech Workforce Innovations Collaborative.
Those hiring include companies that finance or install solar (or both) like SolarCity, SunRun, Sungevity, SunEdison, and Clean Power Finance, who will together hire more than 1,000 employees this year.
Unfortunately, the solar industry has also lost quite a few jobs in recent months. The collapse of Fremont-based Solyndra with it 1,100 jobs.
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