Should green jobs be outsourced?

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2013-04

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Alternative Energy Sources ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
• Subject: renewable energy ; construction ; Imperial Valley ; California ; local economic development ; photovoltaic solar energy generation ; worker training ; apprenticeship ; local economic development

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Philips, Peter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The University of Utah, Department of Economics
• (where): Salt Lake City, UT
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98604
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET