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Ask the military, they're investing in to save money and increase our National Security needs and more! Been some forty years since first trying to develop alternatives, are we finally going to unlock the breaks placed by the few!

Green jobs are real and growing, Says DOE

September 22, 2011 - Other countries like China are already moving aggressively to develop and deploy these technologies, but with continued investments in innovation, this is a race we can win.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) appears to be trying to raise its voice over a chorus declaring green jobs as a bust and clean energy as a scam. According to the department, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman on Thursday plans to publicly highlight the clean-energy jobs created under the Obama administration.

The DOE today also began promoting a new brief video profiling an employee at an A123 Systems manufacturing plant in Romulus, Michigan. In the video, production technician Annette Herrera describes having been out of work for nearly 2 1/2 years before finding the job with A123. The company, which manufactures advanced lithium-ion batteries for cars and grid-based energy storage, opened two manufacturing facilities in Michigan after receiving $249 million in federal stimulus funding, and recently hired its 1000th employee in the state.

Department awarded a loan guarantee to build the Kahuku wind energy plant in Hawaii. Those wind turbines were built in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The wind power project also features a state of the art energy storage system. The Washington Post’s assertions today about the Department of Energy’s loan programs are both incomplete and inaccurate.

Here are the facts: over the past two years, the Department of Energy’s Loan Program has supported a robust, diverse portfolio of more than 40 projects that are investing in pioneering companies as we work to regain American leadership in the global race for clean energy jobs. These projects include major advances for our renewable power industry including the world’s largest wind farm, several of the world’s largest concentrating solar thermal power generation facilities, and one of the country’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants.

Collectively, the projects plan to employ more than 60,000 Americans, create tens of thousands more indirect jobs, provide clean electricity to power three million homes, and save more than 300 million gallons of gasoline a year, all while investing in American competitiveness. What matters to the men and women who have those jobs is that the investments that this Administration is making are helping to keep factories open and running.

When the Washington Post claims that the program has created 3,500 jobs, here is what the reporters are excluding: read more>>>