When we talk about solar jobs and economic development, naysayers raise the spectre of U.S. investment in renewable energy simply being lost to support manufacturing growth overseas. We’ve long countered that on a number of fronts. First of all, manufacturing isn’t everything. 75% of the jobs created in the solar industry are actually associated with the installation side of the business. Those jobs – constructing, financing, marketing, selling and providing legal services for solar projects – are likely to be served by a local U.S. workforce. » Read the rest of this entry «