Public electrical utility Seattle City Light is using $750,000 in Federal stimulus funds for an energy savings program, creating eight new jobs. The Quick Lighting Upgrade Initiative encourages businesses to switch to energy-saving lighting. The utility is hiring six part-time assistant energy management analysts, who will inspect commercial buildings; a full-time contract administrator, and a full-time program [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Alliant Energy is cutting more than 150 jobs at its Rock River plant, including 125 white collar and non-union employees. Thirty percent of the firm’s high-ranking management were cut. Employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will vote on Alliant’s request for a one-week furlough and the suspension of the company’s matching 401K contributions. Founded in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 2, 2009
Oklahoma Gas & Electric has laid off 22 workers at its Oklahoma City HQ. The utility has eliminated its enterprise, information and performance section. With new hires during the restructuring, the firm will have lost only 10 positions in toto. Terminated employees will get severance pay, continued health care benefits and outplacement services. Oklahoma Gas & Electric is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Fifty-four employees of Clarksville, Tennessee Gas, Water & Wastewater have been notified today that their jobs are being eliminated. City officials are combining the water and wastewater divisions, and hiring 35 people. The changes will save about $1 million per year. The employees were given severance packages relative to their number of years of service. They also will [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 11, 2009
A Greenpeace-sponsored report says that by 2050, the United States could sever ties with coal and nuclear power, draw nearly all its electricity from renewable sources, and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80%. All this could be done with existing technology, and would create 14 million US jobs. The report, commissioned by global environmental [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
As many as 90 new jobs could be created, if projects proposed by Jersey Central Power & Light are approved. The utility company has applied with New Jersey’s utility regulator to launch $51 million worth of infrastructure and energy efficiency projects. These include minimizing power outages and installing more efficient street lights. The projects must be approved [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Massachusetts’ unemployment rate soared a full point to 6.9% in December, as the economic meltdown continued to impact the state’s professional and financial services industries. The unemployment rate was 5.9% at the end of November, according to the state. Some 16,800 Bay State workers lost their jobs in December, after 22,300 were laid off in November. Nearly [...]
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