Jung provides specific clean energy job growth numbers and capital projects
Jung provides specific numbers: 68,000 jobs in clean energy occupations in 2021 growing to 75,000 by 2024. In 21 focus occupations largely in building efficiency, growth was 8.6%. He mentions Willets Point generating 14,000+ jobs, the Batworks 30,000 sq ft facility, Bronx Green Job Center, and $10 million CUNY investment.
And so the nature of the projections takes that into account.
We have a methodology in place, but given the timeframe that we've had, we can't replicate that.
But I will note that in the clean energy generation, transmission, distribution, and storage and energy efficiency
occupations for which we have numbers, there were about 68,000 jobs in those occupations in 2021, and now there are about 75,000
as of 2024, which is the latest data set that we have access to currently.
Within the...
Occupations that we discuss in the Green Economy Action Plan, there's 21 focus occupations.
Those are jobs largely within the building efficiency and electrification space, where we feel like there are lower barriers to entry for everyday New Yorkers that pay family sustaining wages of $31 per hour and are largely accessible.
We've seen growth from 2021 to 2024 at a rate of 8.6%, so we see promising job growth figures there.
Like I mentioned in my testimony, we see this as generational work.
The jobs won't be created overnight.
We as EDC are confident that we will continue to see job growth and that green economy itself, given the nature of the crisis, will only continue to heighten.
the need to be addressed, thereby creating economic opportunities.
I will say that our work hasn't stopped.
Like I mentioned in my remarks, we have various capital projects like the Willits Point development, which includes all electric soccer stadium, which in totality will generate more than 14,000 jobs.
We've invested in different workforce facilities all across the city, which I can speak to a little bit more later, but which includes a 30,000 square foot workforce development facility at Batworks in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the Bronx Green Job Center,
and we made $10 million investment into the community central.
campuses.
And so we're happy to share that news and continue the good work ahead.
I'm going to pass to Chair Juan.