Federal Economic Stimulus Bill Expected to Fund Expansion of Program BOULDER, Colo., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Bella Energy, a Boulder-based solar energy client, trained workers learning green construction skills as part of a Boulder County Green Jobs Pipeline Program. Together the crews installed a 10 kW solar system on an affordable housing unit in Louisville, Colorado. The Green Jobs Pipeline is dedicated to helping low-income Coloradoans in need of work attain the renewable energy and energy efficiency skills necessary to compete in the nation's New Energy Economy. Boulder County hopes that funding from the federal economic stimulus bill will support expansion of the Green Jobs Pipeline Program, a joint effort between Workforce Boulder County (WFBC) and Boulder County Housing and Human Services (BCHHS), to train more eligible parents for future jobs in the booming green construction industry. The Colorado solar energy industry alone has grown 1,000% in the last three years and the Solar Energy Industries Association expects new federal legislation to create 60,000 new jobs in the national solar industry in 2009, or 111,000 over the next two years.
