New York state sees renewable energy future (AP) (Report - 43K Jobs)

New York state sees renewable energy future
Comptroller: 43,000 more jobs possibleThe Associated Press

Updated: 9:16 a.m. ET March 16, 2005ALBANY, N.Y. - New York’s rust belt could yield a greener economy that produces and consumes more renewable energy from soybeans to hydrogen, according to an economic report released by the state comptroller.

The report said thousands more jobs would be created in manufacturing and energy related industries if New York steps up its commitment to generating more electricity through renewable sources. The report is the latest to call for New York to expand solar, wind and hydro power, as well as develop crops including corn and soybeans that can be processed into fuel.

Comptroller Alan Hevesi said 43,000 jobs would be created if, by 2013, the state increased to 25 percent the share of electricity used in New York through nontraditional, renewable resources. That commitment, he said, would spawn new businesses to provide the raw materials for the nontraditional fuel.

Renewable resources now account for about 20 percent of the state’s electricity use, he said.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7189122/

This is what we need....all states to start looking at renewable energy plans.

I am shocked -- 20% of electricity today comes from renewable resources in New York...great job.

This is what all states should do

Right now, the Oil Brothers (Cheney-Bush)
have convinced many people otherwise

Try UDO!

I think chance are great something like this happening here since we have Majority Democrats Senates, House and Governor.

n/t

in part, to help save farmlands, but the jobs creation is the biggest argument in its favor. As it is, the main industries in upstate New York now are the prison and psychiatric systems, unless one is lucky enough to live near a college or university.

:bounce:

and those farmers will have plenty to do.

Hemp for cloth, rope, ethanol, food (seeds and oil - rich in omega-3 fatty acids/good cholesterol)- and you can harvest several crops in a year, I believe.

I look forward to the day when hemp gets traded like a commodity, like soybeans and cotton (file it under "Food and Fiber")

:kick:

in order to protect the oil industry is no longer sustainable.

The oil boys are in for a big shock, when everyone starts to go off grid and figure out alternative ways to produce energy.

Now that we can drill for oil in Alaska, who gives an endangered species' ass about renewable energy sources....Those gas prices'll come down faster'n you can say antidisestablishmentarianism....

YEEEEE-HAAAAAAA!

......wee bit o' sarcasm. This is a great article, but the GOP senate is really putting the screws to us this week....

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=10804

"New Jersey has become the solar capital of the nation."

- Glenn Hamer, Executive Director of the national Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)

New Jersey, A New Solar Energy Capital

March 26, 2004

Sure, it doesn't sound like the most likely place for a boom in solar energy, but that's exactly what's starting to take place. The outlook for renewable energy - solar in particular - in New Jersey officially went from good to even better last week as the State finalized the nation's most aggressive renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) for solar power, which calls for 90 MW of solar by 2008.

Washington, D.C. - March 26, 2004

Leaders from national and international solar energy companies gathered in Trenton to release new data that shows that the State of New Jersey has become the best state for solar energy business in the U.S. Since January of 2002, the solar industry in New Jersey has grown 550%, from little under 1 megawatt (MW) installed to an expected 6 MWs this year, according to the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association (Mid-Atlantic SEIA).

The state's RPS is largely responsible for this significant growth.

Solar energy businesses have grown 800% when including designers, installers, architects, distributors, manufacturers and assemblers. That growth does not even reflect the multiplier effect for suppliers, services, and income to the local economy from companies and their employees.

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hope for our future? The news in some of these posts is making me very happy.

without all that damn oil and war and poverty and pollution.:D