TheGreenJobBank Announces the 2012 Top 10 Green Employers

TheGreenJobBank published its list of Top 10 Green Employers of 2012. These employers are companies in multiple sectors of the Green Economy -renewable energy, green automotive, green building, energy efficiency, smart grid, environmental, and sustainability, that have posted the most green jobs online in 2012.
TheGreenJobBank indexes green jobs from websites of green employers, green recruiters, green non-profit organizations, green trade associations, and green job boards. Its keeps a set of quarterly and yearly statistical data by employer and by sector, that enables easy reporting.
The 2012 top 10 green employers posted a total of over 4,200 green jobs:

1

671

2

541

3

453

4

441

5

419

6

397

7

371

8

366

9

303

10

296

"2012 was a great year for green jobs, with our search engine indexing over 100,000 green job posts" said Bernard Ferret, Founder and CEO of TheGreenJobBank. "It was the best we have seen since launching three years ago, and it clearly demonstrates that the Green Economy expansion is real, and that the Green market is doing very well."

The 2012 solar energy sector of the Green Economy demonstrated an accelerating growth rate. Three of the top 10 companies with100% solar products are: SolarCity, REC Solar and Verengo Solar Plus. The combined solar-related companies green job posts: over 5,000.
The environmental sector showed a steady, solid response as well. Two in the top 10 list are: Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and Cardno ENTRIX. Environmental products and services companies posted a combined number of green jobs of 3,800.

2013 Starts Full Speed with over 1,000 New Green Jobs in the First Week

Great start for 2013! The first week of 2013 saw over 1,000 new Green Jobs added by 350 companies.

Among the top companies:

• ERM with 41 new jobs, total job postings: 213
• Nexant with 34 new jobs, total job postings: 36
• REC Solar with 31 new jobs, total job postings: 40
• Kema with 24 new jobs, total job postings: 34

Followed closely by:

• Xantrex
• Tesla Motors
• The Environmental Defense Fund
• OPower
• The Nature Conservancy
• NextEra Energy
• McKinstry
• Ecova

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Electric Vehicles: Huge Potential for Venture Capital and Green Jobs

21 Startups Are Cleaning up the Auto Industry

 

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The Electric Vehicle market is raising billions of dollars, and creating thousands of green jobs. Optimism reigns despite the slowness of deployment of charging stations, and the troubles at A123 Systems and its repercussions for Fisker that are giving the industry an unjustified bad name ("loser").

The list of start-up companies in this market is very long. The top 21 listed below have raised a total of $8 billion in private venture capital. They represent five industry segments: EV manufacturing, hybrid conversion kits, charging stations, batteries, and engines/transmissions technology.

EV Charging Stations not Leading the Charge Fast Enough

This is the typical chicken and egg problem. No charging stations, no electric cars; no electric cars, no charging stations. Without charging stations everywhere, the range of EV's will remain a problem, until battery and charging technologies deliver break-throughs in increased capacity and shorter charge time. Scientists say it will take 5 to 10 years to get there.

Market research firm Frost and Sullivan estimates that the U.S will have over 4 million charging stations by 2017. How will we'll get there remains a big unanswered question. An entire industry, and tens of thousands of green jobs depend on them.