Industrial Accelerator, a program announced last week by the
Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to help spur on energy efficiency in the industrial sector, should create 5,500 green jobs province wide, the regulator says.
The program offers incentives to 45 large industrial companies who are "direct-connect" companies -- that is, they are directly connected to the energy transmission system -- to invest in retrofits of their facilities to enhance energy efficiency. According to Ben Chin, VP of Communications with the OPA, the job creation number is an estimate from the provincial finance ministry based on the effect of the injection of capital into green energy projects. "These are process changes," Chin says. "The jobs that will be created start with engineers to design a project right down to labourers to build it and maintain it."
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Ben Chin, Vice President of Communications, Ontario Power Authority
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