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The Broward County Green
Workforce Innovation Project
White Paper
April 2010
Sponsors
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Citi Foundation
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$50,000 grant
The Greater Fort
Lauderdale/Broward
Economic Development
Alliance
Broward College
The Broward College
Foundation
Workforce One
The Green Workforce
Think Tank
Barbra Romani, Citi Director of Community Relations, and
J. David Armstrong Jr., President of Broward College
Objective
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Create study that informs the effort to foster the growth of
green jobs for low to middle income communities.
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Learn where green jobs will emerge
Look for ways to encourage their development through:
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Training Programs
Public Policy Initiatives
Definition
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What are green jobs?
The Clean Energy Report, PEW
Center
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Clean Energy
Energy Efficiency
Environmentally Friendly Production
Conservation and Pollution Mitigation
Training and Support
Examples of Green Jobs
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Clean energy
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Energy efficiency
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Weatherization Technician
Environmentally friendly production
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Photovoltaic System Installer and Designer
Sustainability Director
Conservation and Pollution mitigation
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Technician at Waste-to-Energy Plant
Methodology
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Broward County Targeted Industries Study
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DCG Corplan Consulting LLC
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nationally-renowned economic development consulting and site selection
firm
Year long study commissioned in April of 2008.
Intended to encourage development of high skill/high wage jobs
Biomass—“essential to preserve (the) state’s status in the
innovation economy”
Photovoltaics—“prevalent” and having “great potential for the south
Florida market area”
Used study to identify green sectors likely to grow
Did case studies on ideal businesses in these sectors
Primary Sectors
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Energy Efficiency
Solar Technology
Biomass
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Case Studies
Minority Builders Coalition
Advanced Green Technologies
Wheelabrator Technologies
Energy Efficiency
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Increasing the efficiency of
buildings and equipment
Growth trend in 2009
Broward College saved $7.5
million 1997-2008
Over $4 million in job
training grants
Energy Efficiency – The Broward County
Minority Builders Coalition
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70 Contractors across Florida
Began in 1973
One of the largest providers of
weatherization services in Florida
$3.2 million grant
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Training for 700 jobs over 2 years in:
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Weatherization
Solar PV
Solar Thermal
LEED Green Associate
OIC, BTC, AGT, IBEW, BAND
Minority Builders Coalition will place 280 in
weatherization jobs
Three Ways to Green Jobs
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Solar America Cities Project, U. S. DOE, 2010
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Foster growth of green jobs with:
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Job training programs
Financing initiatives
Outreach programs
Energy Efficiency – PACE financing
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Property Assessed Clean Energy
Financing
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Financed by bonds
Repaid through property taxes
20 year amortization
Financing stays with property
Interest rates 3-8%
Sonoma Model
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Youth Green Jobs Sonoma
8.4% increase in construction
County investments used
FL legislation passed Senate &
House committee March 17th
One of the top ten breakthrough
ideas of 2010—Harvard Business
Review
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Cell phone financing model
Energy Efficiency: Recommendations
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Broward County should research best practices for PACE programs.
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Broward County Climate Change Action Plan Action MI-2.1
Broward County should seek to coordinate a PACE program with
the existing job training programs.
Broward County should consider using public investments to fund
PACE bonds.
The PACE program should be considered an ongoing public service.
The private bond market should be included in the PACE program.
Information from the program should be used to improve consumer
decisions, insure quality control, highlight benefits of program, and
conduct research.
Broward County should consider working with neighboring
counties to form a regional PACE program that provides lower
rates.
Solar Technology
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Targeted Industry Study: “great
potential for the south Florida
market area”
PV Prices dropping
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Thin film solar cells
Silicon prices dropping
County plans to move its
buildings to renewable energy
Manufactures are applying for
funding to come.
Thin Film Solar Cells
Solar Technology:
Advanced Green Technologies, Inc.
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Spin off from Advanced Roofing, Inc.
Trains roofers to install solar technology
Relationships with roofing companies across U. S.
Part of Minority Builders job training grant project.
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Place 200 trainees
Broward Technical Centers
Unfunded Rebate
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Training program
“may go to waste”
Rob Kornahrens, President of Advanced Roofing, Inc.,
and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
Solar Technology Financing
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PACE financing
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Distributed/Centralized
Revolving loan
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Partnership for Sustainability
FPL Sunshine Energy Program
Denver Museum of Nature and Science installation
financed by Partnership for Sustainability
80% a dollar a month
Annual Budgets for Environmental NPOs
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Greenpeace’s $146 million
Sierra Club $80 million
The Natural Resource Defense Fund over $76 million
The Environmental Defense Fund over $50 million
The Wilderness Society is over $25 million.
40% of wind energy costs vary with respect financing model,
according to 1996 DOE report.
Solar Technology: Recommendations
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Broward County should consider developing a revolving
loan fund for photovoltaic technology installations that is
implemented through a PACE program.
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The Broward County Climate Change Action Plan (Action
MI-2.2) recommends that a voluntary check box be placed on
property tax bills and other billing instruments in order to
generate funds for renewable energy projects.
Biomass
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Creating energy from agricultural
& domestic waste.
Targeted Industry Study describes it
as being “essential to preserve
(the) state’s status in the
innovation economy.”
Clean Energy Trends 2010 describes
industry expansion.
State and county plan to increase
waste sent to waste-to-energy
plants.
Biomass
Source PEW Center on Global Climate Change
Biomass: Wheelabrator Technologies Inc.
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In Broward since 1991
Two plants
Use Municipal waste
generate 134 megawatts
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Enough for 77,000 homes
Reduce landfill use 90%
Over 100 employees
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Plants can be operated by 6
They operate at capacity
South Broward
Biomass Recommendations
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State and County should increase waste sent to waste-toenergy plants in a responsible fashion.
Biomass and biofuel technologies should be included in
the County PACE program as in Vermont, Colorado,
Nevada, Louisiana, and New York .
Research into the Future
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Water Turbines
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The Gulf Stream
Not intermittent
$1.2 million grant
to FAU
Conclusion
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Opportunities
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PACE financing
Coordinate financing programs
with job training programs.
References
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www.greenworkforce.wordpress.com/
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See Documents and PACE page.