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Case Study: Delivering a better customer experience with EagleView Like most of the economy, clean energy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn in 2020. At one point more than 600,000 clean energy workers had filed for unemployment, but the sector rebounded strongly after May to recover about half of those jobs to finish the year down 307,000 clean energy workers. The decline in total clean energy employment was the first recorded since E2 began producing its annual Clean Jobs America reports in 2016.
According to the analysis, energy efficiency jobs saw the biggest drop, declining about 11 percent over the year as workers were prevented from entering homes and offices because of the pandemic lockdowns. Still, energy efficiency accounts for an even greater share of U.S. construction jobs, employing about one in every five construction workers nationwide. Other clean energy sectors also saw significant declines in 2020, including renewable energy (6 percent), g
Zero-carbon electricity now provides most power in Minnesota April 17, 2021 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink:
When Minnesota Power flipped the switch on the Nobles 2 wind farm in southwestern Minnesota last December, it became the first Minnesota utility to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable sources.
The Duluth-based utility also is driving an accelerating trend. Clean energy grew in Minnesota last year despite the pandemic and recession, according to the 2021 Minnesota Energy Factsheet commissioned by the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. It uses research by BloombergNEF.
In 2020, zero-carbon electricity (of renewables and nuclear) generated 55% of Minnesota electricity, up from 48% in 2019. Renewables as a group wind, solar, hydro became the single-biggest source of state electricity at 29% of the total generation. Wind constituted 22% of total generation.
th April 2021), shows that clean energy made huge strides in 2020, despite the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wind farm in Minnesota
In 2020, zero-carbon electricity (composed of renewables and nuclear), generated 55 percent of Minnesota’s electricity, up from 48 percent in 2019. For the first time, renewable energy was the biggest source of electricity in Minnesota at 29 percent of total generation. Of 588 megawatts of new generation capacity built in 2020, all of it was wind or solar, marking a new record for Minnesota.
“Last year’s addition of new wind and solar capacity shows how Minnesota’s clean energy transition is happening in real time” said Gregg Mast, executive director of Clean Energy Economy Minnesota. “With the right policy levers in place, businesses can fully leverage the clean energy transition and ensure that jobs continue to grow and that the economic benefits are extended to everyone who lives here.”