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Watch: A conversation on the future of clean energy jobs

By District Energy posted 05-19-2021 23:32

  

Axios

Summary

On Thursday, May 13, Axios co-founder Mike Allen, editor-in-chief Nick Johnston and managing editor for politics Margaret Talev unpacked how the American Jobs Plan could create green jobs and shift infrastructure to tackle climate change, with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).

Secretary Granholm discussed energy independence as a national security issue, investing in US-based manufacturing, and the rapid growth of the cleantech industry.

  • On investing in cleantech in the US and increasing exports: “We shouldn't be buying wind turbines from Denmark. We should be building them here and stamping a made in America. And, by the way, we could be exporting them as well."
  • On the jobs of the future in cleantech: "I'm super bullish on the technologies that will get us to the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050...The next generation of both solar and wind technology is material science, buildings, district heating. There's so much happening in the clean energy space that creates jobs."
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