Comments on: Energy transition and youth employment in Spain and Greece https://energytransition.org/2018/12/energy-transition-and-youth-employment/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:40:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: kinimod https://energytransition.org/2018/12/energy-transition-and-youth-employment/#comment-9537 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:58:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=18411#comment-9537 Good thing, but who will read this in Spain and Greece, and who will heed it?

]]> By: James Wimberley https://energytransition.org/2018/12/energy-transition-and-youth-employment/#comment-9506 Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:37:41 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=18411#comment-9506 Maybe Macron would not be facing rioting gilets jaunes in Paris if he and Hulot had unblocked wind farms across rural Western France over the last few years.

Jobs and training are of course important. But don’t forget the other economic impacts of renewable energy in rural areas: rents to farmers and other landowners, property taxes to local authorities, income (or at least reduced energy expenditures) to solar prosumers. The beauty of these is that they are not concentrated but widely dispersed across the rural economy. There will be few big winners but many small ones.

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