A new interactive map from The Solar Foundation allows visitors to see the impact of the solar industry at state, metropolitan area, county, and congressional district level for the United States in 2016 .If the new data released by The Solar Foundation (TSF) this morning, which shows the solar industry having a $154 billion impact on the U.S. economy last year, can't mobilize an army of Americans to fight for the right to control their own energy choices, then maybe the polling that shows 90% of Americans support the industry are flat out wrong.
A new interactive map - assembled by TSF from the data it collected in its National Solar Jobs Census - provides the most detailed profile yet on how much the solar revolution is affecting the United States. It breaks down the already jaw-dropping 260,077 jobs nationally into such discrete, delectable pieces it's hard to know where to start.
Want overall national data? It can do that. State-level data? Absolutely. Metropolitan area, county, and congressional district level? Yep, yep and yep. Solar geeks will get lost in this data for hours, so go look at the map at your own risk (go look at the map - you'll enjoy every second of it).
"The solar industry is generating well-paying jobs everywhere from Detroit to Miami to Salt Lake City, and in states from Ohio to Texas to South Carolina," said Andrea Luecke, president and ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...