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A study by The Green Jobs Report shows that manufacturers in the solar and wind power industry are eager to expand production and create new green collar jobs, despite the current economic crisis.

 

Media reports in the past two weeks have detailed plans by seven solar and wind manufacturing companies to create a total of 4,130 new green collar jobs through expanded operations.

 

California's Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that Hayward's OptiSolar plans to create 1,000 green collar jobs at a new manufacturing plant in Sacramento.

 

Brevini USA is planning a new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Yorktown, Indiana that will employ 450 workers.

 

Konarka Technologies new manufacturing facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts will make solar film and employ 100 workers.

 

Amelio Solar will build a  solar panel manufacturing plant in Vineland, New Jersey, creating up to 175 jobs.

 

SCHOTT Solar’s new manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico will employ 1,500 people.

 

Shoal Technology’s new plant in Portland, Tennessee will employ 450.

 

And TPI Composites is planning a new wind blade factory in Newton, Iowa, which will employ 500 in a community that was hard hit by Whirlpool’s acquisition of the company Maytag in 2006.

 

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