Alternative Energy Stores
A White House report stated that alternative energy stores pay 10 to 20 percent more than the average wage in other industries. Alternative energy jobs are also more likely to be unionized. Labor unions see green energy jobs as replacements to jobs lost to overseas manufacturing and outsourcing, leading to a domestic market of alternative energy stores to supply the parts and goods necessary to fuel this industry. To keep alternative energy manufacturing jobs here in the United States, President Obama has already begun to develop that policy in the form of $500 million on alternative energy job training and $150 billion over the next decade on tax incentives to keep those jobs here in our borders. Because most of the industry revolves around revamping US infrastructure, alternative energy jobs are becoming immune to outsourcing and will in turn help develop these alternative energy stores, ensuring that Americans can once again enjoy the prosperity and stability of a booming economy.
For example, there are 8,000-plus components that go into a wind turbine, and there is a supply chain of approximately 16,000 manufacturing firms in the U.S. that would be involved in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of these components. Areas of the US that are hard-hit by the economic recession could become new boom areas of alternative energy stores. For example, a study by the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State University estimates that state incentives would create more than 4,000 jobs in construction and maintenance of alternative energy system by 2029 in Michigan, a state that has been particularly hard-hit by economic recession.
