Job Creation

Localized use of energy efficiency and renewable energy produce jobs in all parts of a country and not just where the conventional energy reserves are located. This provides a more equitable employment environment and one that is permanent and not cyclical.

According to the World Watch Institute's report Renewables 2005, more than 1.7 million direct jobs were created worldwide from renewable energy manufacturing, operations and maintenance in 2004. For example, the wind industry has created 45,000 jobs in Germany and 20,000 in the U.K. offshore wind industry.

Analysis by the Pembina Institute indicates that the "employment created from low-impact renewable electricity would be comparable to or greater than that created by an equivalent capacity of fossil-fuel based generation."

Many of these jobs would be local or regional and small-scale. There is employment potential in rural and remote locations, including First Nation communities. Biomass energy, for example, gives farmers another form of income by allowing them to add an energy crop.

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