Even in these tough economic times, transforming old inefficient businesses into more productive greener ones is an important step in the move towards environmental sustainability. Making this type of transition makes economic green dollars and environmental green sense. It also creates new green jobs and puts people to work conceptualizing, designing, building, installing and running these new green technologies. Businesses can make simple changes like transferring to green hosting to go to yahoo.green hosting.Visionary leaders understand and welcome the economic and social benefits of greening their infrastructure and are taking bold steps in that direction.
One such example of visionary leadership utilizing green technology to improve their infrastructure, increase their production capacity and create good green jobs is the changes taking place at the Spanish-owned electric utility company Scottish Power Energy Networks. Scotland has an old and inefficient electricity network. Led by chief executive Frank Mitchell, Scottish Power is working towards a new, more productive, energy efficient future for the company. They have announced a plan to invest £3 billion to upgrade Scotland’s ancient electricity network to utilize more renewable energy sources.
Scottish Power has begun the process of replacing about 500 miles of outdated and inefficient overhead lines and upgrading one fifth of its substation equipment. The upgrade to the more efficient technology will allow Scottish Power to add 11GW of renewable energy to the grid. The process will require the creation of 1,500 green jobs over the next 10 years. Scottish Power’s Frank Mitchell has stated the company is committed to hiring a younger workforce and providing them with the training to create a new generation of energy industry workers.
Upgrading the equipment will allow Scottish Power to increase transmission capacity between Scotland and England. It will allow the exchange of three times as much electricity between the two countries. A newer, stronger, more modern network to handle their renewable energy ambitions will be created. This greener network will let the companies that generate electricity more efficiently, reliably and cheaply provide energy to the homes and businesses that rely on them.
In 2009, Scotland exported £845 million in low-carbon and renewable energy goods, with wind at £112m and solar PV at £88m. Now, Scottish Power plans to hire an army of young graduate engineers and apprentices and retrain workers under age 25 to replace its aging workforce. Their goal is to ensure Scotland’s energy power grids will be able to adequately handle the energy needs of the 21st century and beyond through the use of new greener technologies.
Scotland is a very small country compared to the US, and we expect to see a massive demand for renewable energy experts over the next 10 years. If we are to build a bright green future we will need to transform our energy infrastructure and we can learn a lot from Europe. In Europe energy is far more expensive than in the US and this has helped to motivate change from government and business. We believe that government must support the same approach here. So why not get on board and help transform America. If you are interested in green jobs please click the button on the right of the screen and find the ideal opportunity in your location.