Rhetoric and Reality: Jobs and the Energy Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Lim, Taekyoung; Guzman, Tatyana; Bowen, William M.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111182

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“…Economic risks and opportunities associated with renewable and low-carbon energy sources, speci cally about employment, are particularly salient in political arguments about energy transition dynamics. Studies have found that previous federal legislation in the US, including the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, have proven successful in creating energy sector jobs (Lim et al, 2020). Tackling climate change while creating jobs is key to US President Biden's agenda, aiming to dispel narratives that a renewable energy transition will result in widespread job loss, particularly in states that are economically tied to the production of coal and gas (Davenport et al, 2021).…”

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Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Caggiano,

Constantino,

Greig

et al. 2024

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Rapidly building utility-scale energy infrastructure requires not only public support, but also political will across levels of government. This research explores determinants of opposition and support for large-scale energy projects among residents and local elected officials in Pennsylvania—a key transition state due its high solar potential, and where siting authority rests at the local level. This work extends prior research by using a conjoint to compare many project characteristics simultaneously, expanding the set of characteristics typically considered, sampling both the public and elected officials in a key transition state, and assessing the accuracy of public officials’ perceptions of their constituents. Using a conjoint experiment, we assess support for different characteristics of energy projects among a demographically representative sample of residents (n = 894) and a sample of local elected officials (n = 206). Key findings include that creation of permanent, union-wage jobs and cooperative community ownership increases support for energy projects and that solar projects are preferred over wind, nuclear, and natural gas power plants with carbon capture and storage. Support among both the public and local elected officials is lower when projects are owned by foreign companies. Strikingly, we find limited partisan differences in preferences for large scale renewable energy project characteristics, suggesting a promising path towards building bipartisan support for such projects. We also find, however, that local elected officials misperceive the preferences of their constituents, underestimating support for renewable energy and the importance of job creation. Given the role of local elected officials as key decision-makers regarding energy infrastructure development, their preferences and how they perceive their constituents’ preferences may dictate what types of energy projects are approved and what benefits they deliver to local communities.

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Section: Characteristics Of Large-scale Energy Projectsmentioning

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Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Caggiano,

Constantino,

Greig

et al. 2024

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“…Yi [2] also suggested that renewable energy policy adoption and the presence of clean energy business associations are the major driving forces for green business in U.S. states [6]. The government's expenditure package, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, can be essential to creating clean energy jobs [7]. Jung [4] critically evaluated the South Korean government's green job policies as "weak ecological modernization, relatively stressing economic growth and excluding citizen participation" [8].…”

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Matching and Mismatching of Green Jobs: A Big Data Analysis of Job Recruiting and Searching

Song¹,

Kim²,

Cha³

et al. 2021

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Creating green jobs tackles two crises: the economic downturn and environmental degradation. Responding to the economic downturn, some governments have declared a “green new deal” to remedy unemployment and the economic crisis. Job creation has been suggested as a driving force for sustainable economic development and climate change action. However, the question of how many and what types of green jobs are required has not been systematically examined. Are green job openings and searches matching each other in terms of timing, sectors, regions, and salary? This study aims to explore the degree of matching between green job supply and demand using a big data analysis (BDA) of online job market recruiting services in South Korea from 2009 to 2020. The BDA of the Ecojob website reveals that green jobs are concentrated in Seoul and Gyeounggi-do metropolitan areas. The number of water- and air-quality-related jobs is high within these sectors. Job searches in the water quality sector outnumbered job openings. The findings imply that green job creation policy should reflect timing, regional, and sectoral demand and supply data. Creating and matching green jobs is expected to reduce environmental harm, enhance environmental quality, and reduce unemployment.

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Job creation in a low carbon transition to renewables and energy efficiency: a review of international evidence

Hanna,

Heptonstall,

Gross

2024

Sustain Sci

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In this paper, we present findings from a systematic review on job creation, quality, and skills, focusing on decarbonisation in the energy sector. We compare a range of gross job employment factors which indicate that overall, investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency can deliver more jobs than gas or coal power generation. In addition, we review a subset of recent studies which estimate the net employment effects of decarbonisation in the energy sector at a national scale, across various international contexts. These national studies largely agree that the most likely outcome over the next few decades is a modest net positive creation of jobs and moderate economic growth. In certain regions within these countries, jobs in fossil fuel industries may be lost faster than the pace at which low carbon energy sectors can offer new employment. There may be mismatches between regions where displaced workers live and where new opportunities become available, which may be a barrier to accepting alternative employment even if former workers have the requisite skills. In these cases national government transition plans are recommended, coordinated with local governments, to manage the impacts of displacement from carbon-intensive sectors and respond to the need to build a new low carbon workforce including through skills development and training. We highlight a lack of metrics and data in the literature on job quality, skills, and the geographic distribution of employment impacts in decarbonising energy systems, and these should be priority areas for further research.

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Rhetoric and Reality: Jobs and the Energy Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Cited by 7 publications

References 44 publications

Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Matching and Mismatching of Green Jobs: A Big Data Analysis of Job Recruiting and Searching

Job creation in a low carbon transition to renewables and energy efficiency: a review of international evidence

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