{"id":3351,"date":"2015-03-13T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:16:44","slug":"a-sunny-picture-solar-industry-jobs-in-texas-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3351","title":{"rendered":"A Sunny Picture: Solar Industry Jobs in Texas Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3352\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3352\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44737-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Texas has the country\u2019s sixth-highest number of workers in the solar industry at nearly 7,000, according to the latest National Solar Jobs Census. Photo: Paul Sableman\/Flickr.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44737-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44737-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44737-1-1-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44737-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas has the country\u2019s sixth-highest number of workers in the solar industry at nearly 7,000, according to the latest National Solar Jobs Census. Photo: Paul Sableman\/Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>by John Michaelson\/TNS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The sun is shining a bit brighter on the solar industry in the Lone Star State, as the latest analysis shows the state continues to gain jobs in that market.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Luecke, president and executive director of The Solar Foundation, says the number of solar energy-related jobs in Texas has grown by 68 percent since 2013, with the total now at nearly 7,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s currently ranked sixth in the nation,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are 365 solar companies, predominantly demand-side, with a small amount of manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Solar Census also found there are now nearly 29,000 homes in Texas powered by solar, ranking the state 15th in home solar use in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Luecke notes that while residential and commercial demand for solar-generated power in Texas remains modest, the state\u2019s utility market is growing quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtilities such as Austin Energy and CPS [Energy] in San Antonio have procured large amounts of utility-scale solar power through power purchase agreements,\u201d she says. \u201cThese are some of the lowest prices ever seen for solar in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Luecke, the solar industry now employs more than 173,000 workers nationwide, with the top sectors being installation, sales and distribution, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Michaelson\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The sun is shining a bit brighter on the solar industry in the Lone Star State, as the latest analysis shows the state continues to gain jobs in that market. Andrea Luecke, president and executive director of The Solar Foundation, says the number of solar energy-related jobs in Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}