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GREEN JOB TRAINING

GREEN JOB TRAINING. A PRESENTATION. Future Forward Workforce Alliance. “Advancing Sustainable Technology Efforts throughout the Green Corridor”

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GREEN JOB TRAINING

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  1. GREEN JOB TRAINING A PRESENTATION

  2. Future Forward Workforce Alliance • “Advancing Sustainable Technology Efforts throughout the Green Corridor” • Collaborative effort that partners Western Piedmont Workforce Development Board, High Country Workforce Development Board, and Isothermal Planning and Development (Region C) Workforce Development Boards together • Collectively these three separate entities are identified as the Future Forward Workforce Alliance

  3. FFWA Facts • Serves 15 N.C. Counties including: • Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey, Alexander, Burke, Catawba, Caldwell, Rutherford, Polk, McDowell, and Cleveland • Encompasses Services available to all three Workforce Development Regional entities currently serving this 15 county area

  4. FFWA Facts • N.C. Commission of Workforce Development has received Federal grant funding (U.S.Dept. of Labor) to support the FFWA project ($1.5 million) • These funds will be used primarily to identify training needs, develop necessary training programs, and support skill development as related to Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Deconstruction and Materials Use, and Green Building

  5. What is the “Green Corridor”?

  6. DOL Energy sector industries 171(e)(1)(B)(ii) • Energy efficient building, construction, and retrofit industries. • Renewable Electric power industries • Bio-fuel industries. • Deconstruction and materials re-use industries. • Energy efficiency assessment industries serving residential, commercial, or industrial sectors. • Manufacturers that produce sustainable products using environmentally sustainable processes and materials.

  7. Global Investment is up! • According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance earlier this year, from 2004 to 2009 new global investment in energy efficient solutions and renewable energy increased from $46 billion to $162 billion. Bloomberg forecasts that this investment will rise to $325 billion in year 2019, while quadrupling the number of jobs in these green energy industries

  8. National Forecasts • U.S. Sustainable Business Spending Will Double To $60B By 2014 • Firm Verdantix evaluated 1,833 firms with U.S. revenues of at least $1 billion and determined that sustainability spending will increase by 11% in 2010 compared to 2009. • This positive trend will continue with a year-on-year increase of 16% in 2011 accelerating to growth of 24% in 2012. Over the 2009 to 2014 period the compound annual growth rate will be 19% across all 20 industries covered by the market forecast. • http://www.verdantix.com/

  9. Overall trends in NC • The renewable energy and energy efficiency industries currently support 10,250 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) in North Carolina. • Research from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro found over 1,300 firms employing just over 61,000 workers with the potential to manufacture components for the solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal industries. • “Over half of reporting firms anticipate new hiring needs in the next 12 months. In aggregate, if current expectations are met, North Carolina will produce a 36% increase in employment related to renewable energy and energy efficiency among reporting firms. Extrapolating to include non-respondents, these growth expectations would produce over 3,500 new jobs in North Carolina in the next year. Renewable energy installers, designers, and developers anticipate the greatest growth, in absolute terms, accounting for one-quarter of anticipated new jobs.” (North Carolina Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Industries Census 2009) • From 2008 to 2009, North Carolina’s renewable energy and energy efficiency companies attracted $50.9 million in venture capital and private equity investment (Bloomberg New Energy Finance [BNEF]).

  10. Their counting on us… A new study by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) examines the workforce needs of the energy efficiency services sector, and finds that the speed with which employment will grow will depend in part on how effectively the nation deploys training and education programs for the energy efficiency workforce. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/04/07/energy-efficiency-workforce/

  11. NC ranked 8th among leading energy efficiency markets • The Center for American Progress estimates that retrofitting just 40 percent of the residential and commercial building stock in the United States would: • Create 625,000 sustained full-time jobs over a decade • Spark $500 billion in new investments to upgrade 50 million homes and office buildings • Generate as much as $64 billion a year in cost savings for U.S. ratepayers, freeing consumers to spend their money in more productive ways http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/good_jobs_new_markets.html/#fastfacts

  12. NC is favorable for green jobs: • Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). • Net metering and Interconnection. • Rebates and Grants- NC Green Business Fund. • Tax Incentives- 30% state tax credit, 35% federal tax credit = 50% off sale. • Great resources for Wind, solar, and biomass. • More green homes under construction in the Asheville area than anywhere else in NC

  13. Renewable Energy • NC Greenpower

  14. Green jobs are coming… Will your workforce be ready?

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