Energy In-depth: Nearly 10,500 Clean Energy Jobs Announced Across U.S. In Q2
by September 4, 2015 6:11 am 147 views
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REPORT: NEARLY 10,500 CLEAN ENERGY JOBS ANNOUNCED ACROSS U.S. IN Q2 – The national nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) released its latest quarterly clean energy jobs report showing that nearly 10,500 clean energy and clean transportation jobs were announced nationwide between April and June.
The jobs were announced at nearly 40 projects across 22 states. The total jobs number for the second quarter is slightly higher than the first quarter of the year, but lower than the corresponding quarter last year. Partly due to declining materials costs, solar was once again the top sector with nearly 6,500 announced jobs.
Nearly 2,800 jobs were announced in the wind industry, 450 in advanced vehicles, and almost 200 in the advanced biofuels industry. The report is available at www.cleanenergyworksforus.org. It comes ahead of President Obama’s three-week, cross-country trip to highlight the dangers of and solutions to climate change.
‘SUPERGIANT’ NATURAL GAS DISCOVERY IN EGYPT BY ENI COULD BE LARGEST EVER FIND: Italian multi-national oil and gas giant Eni has made a world class supergiant natural gas discovery at its Zohr Prospec in the deep waters of Egypt, the company announced this week.
The discovery could hold a potential of 30 trillion cubic feet of gas covering an area of about 100 square kilometres. Zohr is the largest gas discovery ever made in Egypt and in the Mediterranean Sea. Rome-based Eni will immediately appraise the field with the aim of accelerating a fast track development of the discovery that will utilize at best the existing offshore and onshore infrastructures, the company said.
The Italian game-changing discovery, which also holds a potential of 5.5 billion barrels of oil “could become one of the world’s largest natural gas finds” ever, the company said.
SAUDI ARABIA CUTS SELLING PRICE FOR ALL CRUDE OIL GRADES: The world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, has cut the official selling price for its light, medium and heavy crude grades loading in October to Asian customers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
State-owned oil company Saudi Aramco said in an emailed statement Thursday that light and heavy grades had been cut by 60 cents, while medium had been cut by 50 cents. Extra light remained unchanged while super light prices increased by 10 cents.
The letter also stated that Aramco had reduced the price of all its grades to the U.S., with extra light and medium cut by 50 cents and light and heavy grades by 60 cents. For more on the story, click here.