Green Jobs Update

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Green Jobs Update
One Perspective

• Dean McKenzie
• Directorate of Construction
• Office of Construction Services

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Just What is a Green Job?

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Are These Green?
Recycling
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VIEWPOINTS
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Example 1 Wikipedia

• A green job, also called a green-collar job is,
  according to the United Nations Environment
  Program, "work in agricultural, manufacturing,
  research and development (RD), administrative,
  and service activities that contribute(s)
  substantially to preserving or restoring
  environmental quality. Specifically, but not
  exclusively, this includes jobs that help to
  protect ecosystems and biodiversity reduce
  energy, materials, and water consumption through
  highefficiency strategies de-carbonize the
  economy and minimize or altogether avoid
  generation of all forms of waste and pollution."

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Example 2
American Progress .Org Says

• Green jobs are living-wage, career-track jobs
  that contribute to preserving or enhancing
  environmental quality. They have some important
  characteristics.

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What Are The Old Hazards?

• Fall Protection Issues
• Installing Energy Efficient HVAC
• Installing Solar Panels
• Garden Roofs
• Respiratory hazards
• Re-insulating older buildings
• Fiberglass work
• Lead and Asbestos Abatement

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Old Hazards Continued

• Home, Commercial Government Building
  Weatherization For Efficiency.
• Clean Coal Conversions
• On-site Recycling, Including Roadway And Bridge
  Work

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New Hazards

• Economic Incentives bring new work to Americans
  which can bring untrained workers to new
  industries.
• Green Energy Incentives will certainly have this
  effect.

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Emerging Technologies

• When The Cost To Purchase Emerging Energy
  Technology Comes Down, So Will The Worker
  Training. When The Little Guy Can Go To Home
  Depot And Buy A Solar PV Panel or Wind Turbine.

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What Are Some Other Newer Issues?

• Installing/Removing Photovoltaic products made
  with Cadmium Telluride
• (known carcinogen)
• Building With Carbon Fiber (nano tube)
• New Flexible PV Panels will allow each roof
  shingle to be a PV Panel, Each Shingle 17
  watts, 1000sq ft of Roof
• When The Production Cost Comes down So Will the
  availability and the Installers Training

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Photovoltaic Roof Shingles

• New Solar Cell roof shingles, we cant keep
  roofers in fall protection now. What about adding
  electrical shock to the shingle!

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Emerging Issues

• Carbon Fiber Nanotube Technology Used for Lighter
  - Stronger (asbestos type risk?)
• New Composite Wood Products
• Off-gassing formaldehyde (exposure of on-site
  workers)
• Lithium For power storage Is very volatile
• More (?)

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Wind Energy Issues

• Confined Space Issues
• Overseas Components That Wont Meet US Standards.
• There are NO direct standards for wind energy.
• On-site repair of Carbon Fiber Fiberglass
  Blades.
• Blade Repairs Are Often Done By Rappelling Down
  The Blade In Mountain Climbing Gear

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Is Building a Large Yacht Green?
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How About Wind Turbine Blades?
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Sanding Grinding
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Molded Fiberglass blade
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Confined Space

• Confined space entry
• Finish work on seams of blade
• Grind and layup
• Permit, monitoring, attendant, etc.
• Styrene at LM
• Epikote did not show air exposures

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Citations

• 1910.95 Noise
• 1910.106 Flammable storage
• 1910.107 Spraying (paint and styrene)
• 1910.132 PPE (hands and body)
• 1910.133 PPE (eyes and face)
• 1910.134 Respirators
• 1910.146 Confined Space
• 1910.151 Eye wash facilities
• 1910.307 Unapproved electrical
• 1910.1000 Dust and styrene exposures

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Blade Repair
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More Wind Issues

• Picture Climbing 300 Foot Of Ladder And Only One
  Way Out, Back Down 300
• The Other Exit Is the Roof Of The Nacelle
• Over Speed Brake Failures
• Some Nacelles are Being Made With Polystyrene
  Type Foam Which Is Extremely Flammable But Light.

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Turbines Can Burn
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This One Fell Near A Highway
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Residential Energy Production

• Homeowners With Solar and Wind Energy Producing
  Equipment
• Back Feeding The Grid
• Climbing To Repair

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New Materials

• Pressure Treated Lumber Long In Use Before
  Arsenic Warnings.
• Need for caution in handling new/untested
  products.
• Recycled Products That Sound Wonderful, May Turn
  Out Not To Be

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Challenge
Incorporate Safety into Green

• Need for Credible Approach
• Lots of Folks Jumping on Bandwagon
• Green Refers To Long-term Benefits
• Environmental Health / Human Health

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DOEs Green Grants 16 Billion

• Implementing the American Recovery and
  Reinvestment Act of 2009
• The 16.8 billion designated for the Office of
  EERE is divided across several EERE programs. The
  final appropriations include
• 5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance
  Program
• 3.1 billion for the State Energy Program
• 3.2 billion for Energy Efficiency and
  Conservation Block Grants
• 454 Million for retrofit ramp-ups in energy
  efficiency
• 2.5 billion for Applied Research, Development,
  Demonstration, and Deployment, including
• 800 million for the Biomass Program
• 400 million for the Geothermal Technologies
  Program
• 350 million for the demonstration and research
  and development of geothermal energy
• 50 million for geothermal heat pumps
• 346 million for energy efficient building
  technologies
• 256 million for the Industrial Technologies
  Program
• 117 million for the Solar Technologies Program

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DOE continued

• 110 million for the Vehicle Technologies Program
  
• 100 million for facility and infrastructure
  improvements at the National Renewable Energy
  Laboratory
• 93 million to support wind energy projects
• 50 million for Information and Communications
  technology
• 41.9 million to spur the growth of Fuel Cell
  Markets
• 32 million for modernizing existing U.S.
  hydropower infrastructure, increasing efficiency,
  and reducing environmental impact
• 25 million for the Massachusetts Wind Technology
  Testing Center
• 22 million for Community Renewable Energy
  Deployment
• 2 billion for Advanced Battery Manufacturing
  Grants
• 400 million for Transportation Electrification
• 300 million for an Energy Efficient Appliance
  Rebate Program and ENERGY STAR
• 300 million for an Alternative-Fueled-Vehicles
  Pilot Grant Program
• For a more detailed breakdown of these figures,
  see the EERE Network News article, "Economic
  Stimulus Act Provides 16.8 Billion for EERE
  Programs."

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In Conclusion

• Defining Green Jobs will be an ongoing effort.
• It is imperative that we keep up with technology.
• These issues will only accelerate as energy
  efficiency and independence grows.

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