Clean Energy Bank Could Generate 2 Million Jobs and Drive $2 Billion In Investment

By Tracey de Morsella on August 13, 2009 1 Comment Carbon, Center for American Progress, clean energy, clean energy bank, Clean Energy Deployment Administration, clean energy innovation, clean energy jobs, Clean tech, climate bill, climate policies, Climate Progress, Coalition for the Green Bank, EIA, energy deployment, energy efficiency, green bank, green collar jobs, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, incentives, Jake Caldwell, market-based pollution-reduction program, Obama, predictable price signal

The creation of a Green Bank will encourage a long overdue integrated and strategic approach to clean-energy innovation, efficiency, and deployment in the United States. In combination with Senate action on clean energy—legislation that provides incentives for the research, development, and deployment of clean-energy technologies, and a market-based pollution-reduction program that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and reinforces a predictable price signal on carbon—the Green Bank will open credit markets, motivate private business to invest again, and create good, clean-energy jobs here at home.