Category: In the News
Chicago Sun Times: Sky’s the limit for West Side training of solar panel technicians
Rob Wallace, chief executive of Ecademy, instructs Traveli Ratcliff on cutting angles while learning how to install solar panels Monday. A new venture hopes to train 10,000 graduates over the next decade in solar panel installation. With the involvement of businesses and organizations, and maybe a boost from providence, a venture to train people in […]
The Associated Press: Classes Begin at New Green Job Training Center in Chicago
Chicago’s new Sustainability Hub will train and employ 10,000+ local Illinois residents for solar careers CHICAGO, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Sustainability Hub, a new Chicago job training center jointly developed by Power52’s Ecademy and 548 Enterprise (548), has proudly welcomed the first twenty trainees to its clean energy job training program. With funding […]
Canary Media: A huge community solar order is latest in US clean manufacturing boom
Summit Ridge Energy’s 2.5-megawatt Speedway community solar project south of Joliet, Illinois (Business Wire) A record-setting supply agreement between solar hardware builder Qcells and project developer Summit Ridge Energy was announced last week, indicating that the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act are already driving the deployment of domestically sourced renewable energy infrastructure. The 1.2-gigawatt […]
Reuters: U.S. VP Harris takes Biden’s jobs message to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks, during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany February 18, 2023. DALTON, Georgia, April 6 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday took the Biden administration’s jobs agenda to a right-wing Georgia congressional district represented by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, an avid supporter of former President […]
The Hill: Harris announces largest single investment in US community solar power at Georgia plant
Vice President Harris speaks to the audience during her visit to the Qcells solar plant in Dalton, Ga. Thursday, April 6, 2023. Summit Ridge Energy, the largest U.S.-based solar energy company, will buy 2.5 million solar panels from Korean solar panel manufacturer Qcells, Vice President Harris announced Thursday at a Georgia Qcells facility. Harris made […]
The Washington Post: Inside Biden’s balancing act on ditching coal
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