Where’s the Beef in Clean Tech? Look Around
Last week’s announcement that automaker Tesla Motors plans to put more than
1,000 California workers back on the assembly lines at the NUMMI plant is
yet another indicator that the clean tech industry will be a driving force
in California’s economic recovery.
Just a few days earlier, Southern California Edison announced an agreement
to place up to 40 percent of Edison’s massive 250 megawatt solar project on
15 million sq. ft. of rooftops of ProLogis distribution warehouse roofs in
the Inland Empire. That project will put 1,200 to work. The International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is supporting the plan through the
expansion of its solar installation apprentice program.
Meanwhile, Spain’s leading wind company, Power System, S.L.. announced it
will open its U.S. office in San Diego. The reason? "To bring us closer to
our North American customers and enable us to offer our solutions to the
wind turbines and solar power markets in this region," said the company’s
managing director, Jose Manuel Angulo Macias.