{"id":143896,"date":"2022-08-13T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/local-renewable-energy-employment-can-fully-replace-us-coal-jobs-nationwide"},"modified":"2022-08-13T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T16:22:19","slug":"local-renewable-energy-employment-can-fully-replace-us-coal-jobs-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/local-renewable-energy-employment-can-fully-replace-us-coal-jobs-nationwide","title":{"rendered":"Local renewable energy employment can fully replace US coal jobs nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/local-renewable-energy-employment-can-fully-replace-us-coal-jobs-nationwide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation\u2019s power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University of Michigan study.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/coal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">coal<\/a>-fired <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electricity+generation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electricity generation<\/a> directly employed nearly 80,000 workers at more than 250 plants in 43 U.S. states. The new U-M study quantifies\u2014for the first time\u2014the technical feasibility and costs of replacing those coal jobs with local wind and solar employment across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published online Aug. 10 in <i>iScience<\/i>, concludes that local wind and solar jobs can fill the electricity generation and employment gap, even if it\u2019s required that all the new jobs are located within 50 miles of each retiring coal plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation\u2019s power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University of Michigan study. As of 2019, coal-fired electricity generation directly employed nearly 80,000 workers at more than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}