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The
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Green Economy Will
Create Millions Of Jobs
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General Electric And
Google Agree
Dear
GENI Friend,
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One way to know when your message is getting attention is by
the quality and number of others who have taken up your cause. Two decades ago,
we launched the GENI Initiative to advocate the interconnection of electric
power networks, emphasizing the use of local and remote renewable energy
resources. This strategy is the “highest priority objective” of the World
Game simulation. It was a lonely and quixotic endeavor in the early 90’s when
energy officials would smile politely, then set our work aside.
Today, the UNEP and International Organization of Employers project
that millions of new jobs will be created in the green economy. Already they
report that “renewable energy now generates more new jobs than employment
in fossil fuels.” Many of our interns helped us drive the GENI
Initiative globally and have since graduated and moved into green energy jobs,
research and policy positions.
Additionally, two of the world’s best known corporate brands
have become advocates. The chief executives of GE and Google have partnered to
promote the development of new electric grids and “smart grid” technologies.
Both want to make renewables more accessible and cheaper to produce than
coal-generated power. Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives
at Google emphasized, “All this talk about renewable energy will not be
realized if we do not build substantial additional transmission capacity.”
You can take some of the credit for this.
GENI has been writing, exhibiting, speaking and provoking energy leaders for
almost 20 years. This would have been impossible without your support. Now we
must require our utilities to build a 21st century energy system,
harnessing our planet’s abundant renewable energy potential while integrating
the electrical networks across all borders. This is the grand challenge for
all nations.
Happy New Year, |
Peter Meisen
President
p.s. We now have an RSS feed of regular updates on the
issues important to the GENI Initiative:
http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/rss/geni.rss
p.p.s. Please consider renewing your
GENI
pledge. It will make a real difference in
our work.
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