Oct. 10, 2007: Groups Suggest Renewable Energy Jobs

Iowa's potential with renewable energy has created a huge job pool, which only stands to grow in the future.

Des Moines Register
Groups Suggest Renewable Energy Jobs
By Perry Beeman and Donnelle Eller
Oct. 10, 2007
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071010/BUS...

Iowa's ethanol boom has produced fewer jobs than expected but could join with wind farms and other energy projects to create 9,500 jobs if proper incentives are offered, environmental groups reported Tuesday in Des Moines.

Sierra Club and Worldwatch Institute reported in "Destination Iowa" that ethanol created about 35 direct jobs per 50-million-gallons-a-year plant.

Such plants were expected to add as many as 1,000 jobs throughout the communities they were built in, but the report showed that a plant that size creates 133 jobs, including spinoff positions outside the plant.