A coalition of various green power businesses & trade groups known as the RES Alliance for jobs are using a newly developed study for promoting the many benefits of high federal renewable energy mandates. The senior vice president of developement & transmission & policy at Iberdrola Renewables, a wind energy generation company, Don Furman said, “We will need to have a very strong renewable standard of electricity if we want to make a stable enough environment for investment & thus, help with the growth of a sector that has so much promise.” He also added, “If we do not have strong RES then the United States wind industry is not going to see any growth in net job availability & are most likely going to lose jobs out to competitors from abroad.”

Promoters of clean energy have been at the back of the Congress asking them to consider a higher national renewable mandate compared to the one which is being currently considered by lawmakers and they are facing very stiff opposition from the lawmakers concerned with respect to the fact of raising the price of energy at the time of a recession. This study, which was contracted by the alliance showed that the industry will be able to create a total of 274,000 more jobs if they chose to employ a 25% renewable power standard as compared to the amount it would be able to provide without such a mandate.

These standards means that 3 times more jobs are going to available under renewable power targets approved by the House as well as a similar measure which is pending at the Senate, according to the study. Last year, a bill was passed by the house which needed at least 15% of total electricity to utilities to be gotten from various renewable sources of energy by as soon as 2020.

A mandate that was approved by the Energy & Natural resources Committee of the Senate also set 15% renewable power targets but said that the states only needed to meet a quarter of total energy required according to the mandate using energy efficiency measures. Lawmakers from the regions where there isn’t enough solar or wind energy have not liked this strigent renewable standard of electricity and have argued against it saying that their constituents are going to be penalized by getting higher electricity bills. The counter the alliance used for this is that each state would be able to create more jobs for it’s community by having a higher renewable electricity standard.