AWEA: Wind Industry Could Drive a Quarter Million American Jobs by 2020

March 9, 2017

According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), American wind power expansion is poised to drive 248,000 jobs and $85 billion dollars in economic activity over the next 4 years, according to a new analysis released by Navigant Consulting. These and other economic benefits will result from the addition of 35,000 megawatts of new wind power capacity through 2020.