California's Solar Industry Adds 20,000 Jobs In 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- The sun certainly shone on solar jobs last year, with California's solar industry adding over 20,000 jobs in 2015, up 35 percent from the previous year.
Bernadette Del Chiaro, Executive Director of the California Solar Energy Industries Association notes that's more than the number of people employed in the traditional utility sector.
Most of the jobs have to do with rooftop solar installation, but there was also growth in sales and distribution, as well as manufacturing. Del Chiaro says they expect solar job growth to continue in 2016, although NOT as dramatically.
She says that uncertainty has been smoothed out thanks to last minute federal legislation.
