{"id":719583,"date":"2010-04-19T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:04:02","slug":"solar-industry-in-2009-17000-more-jobs-37-increase-in-capacity-major-drop-in-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/719583","title":{"rendered":"Solar Industry in 2009: 17,000 More Jobs, 37% Increase in Capacity, Major Drop in Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/US-Solar-Industry-Employment.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/US-Solar-Industry-Employment.jpg?resize=500%2C352\" alt=\"\" title=\"US Solar Industry Employment\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the economic recession, the solar industry grew significantly in 2009. The solar industry added <strong>17,000 jobs<\/strong> to the US economy in 2009. Installed solar capacity grew by approximately 37%. And we saw a serious drop in the cost of solar. (more info and graphs below)<\/p>\n<p>46,000 jobs are supported by the solar industry now, but that number is expected to climb to over 60,000 by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/19\/solar-industry-in-2009-17000-more-jobs-37-increase-in-capacity-major-drop-in-costs\/#more-8489\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the economic recession, the solar industry grew significantly in 2009. The solar industry added 17,000 jobs to the US economy in 2009. Installed solar capacity grew by approximately 37%. And we saw a serious drop in the cost of solar. (more info and graphs below) 46,000 jobs are supported by the solar industry now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12076,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}