Should Green Jobs Be Outsourced?

Peter Philips

Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Utah from University of Utah, Department of Economics

Abstract: The proposed Sempra 1250 megawatt (MW) tieline connecting the California grid to envisioned new wind-farms in Mexico is not just about electricity. It is also about foregone opportunities, lost human capital investment, lost worklives, lost tax revenues, and diminished economic development prospects; and also, it is about which regulatory authority, California or Mexico, should oversee the environmental impacts of building green generation capacity for the California grid. Finally, it is about undoing some of the economic benefits and jobs stimulated by the first set of federally subsidized, utilityscale, solar projects fast-tracked by the Interior Department.

Keywords: renewable energy; construction; Imperial Valley; California; local economic development; photovoltaic solar energy generation; worker training; apprenticeship; local economic development JEL Classification: Q4; Q42; O1; O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 129 pages
Date: 2013
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