Clean energy doesn't just generate power — it generates jobs.A recent analysis by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance, found that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act's climate, energy, and environmental investments will create over nine million jobs in the next decade.And college-educated workers are not the main beneficiaries of this eco-friendly economic boom.
There is still much work to be done, but investments like these can help workers transition from declining industries, such as coal mines, to build clean energy technologies of the future, such as solar panels and wind turbines.Repurpose and Transfer Skills to a New SectorOnly some skills needed for the clean energy workforce must be learned from scratch. A lot of the expertise used by those in the fossil fuel industry can be transferred to clean energy.