with an office in San Diego, CA planned. The Department of Energy has finalized a loan guarantee of $90.6 million to Cogentrix of Alamosa, CO.  Cogentrix will build a 30 megawatt high concentration photo voltaic plant near the southern Colorado town.  When finished the plant will produce enough electricity to power 6,500 homes. 

The DOE has also made a loan guarantee of $197 million to SoloPower for the construction of two thin film solar module manufacturing plants located in Portland, OR and San Jose, CA.  The Department of Energy has made a conditional loan guarantee of $133.9 The plant is to be built in Hugoton, KS; the US corporate headquarters of Abengoa is St.

Which city leads the nation in number of green jobs and that number will more than double by 2030?  According to a new study released by the Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs Network , Los Angeles is the leader. Over the last decade the rate of green job creation has been three times as much as the rest of the Los Angeles basin economy. 

Palo Alto, CA based eCullet has received $38 million from venture capitalists.  The Department of Energy has announced a $50 million investment in PV solar manufacturing in the U.S.  The program, titled SUNPATH , will assist smaller companies with funding assistance to overcome gaps as they grow their technology.

The Sunnyvale, CA based company is working toward reducing the cost of solar panels. A maker of garage stalls topped with light weight amorphous solar panels, Sunlogics , has received a $7.5 million investment from General Motors. Follow the Green Money DuPont GM Innovalight Sunlogics Virgin Green Fund II

Among the many companies investing in the Folsom, CA based company is GE.  Palo Alto, CA based Tesla Motors has an agreement with Toyota to produce the electric powertrain, including batteries and motors, for the RAV-4 that would earn Tesla $100 million.  There are some career openings for engineers and project mangers.

Green Jobs Growing CA desert field biologist wind solar farmsIn addition to the hundreds of jobs created in construction and design when a new solar or wind power plant is being built, there are also green jobs being created before ground is broken.  No one has ever tried to build such massive plants in the desert before.

The Santa Barbara, CA based company has career openings for engineers and technicians. The Department of Energy has been busy assisting the clean energy industry with loan guarantees.  The DOE has provided partial loan guarantee for a $1.4 billion project to install solar panels on 750 roof tops called Project Amp.  million.

The Palo Alto, CA based company has a limited number of openings , some in CA, some in TX. The Department of Energy has offered a conditional loan guarantee of $150 million to 1366 Technologies to develop more efficient solar cell production that will lower the cost of manufacturing. 

San Bruno, CA based Agile Energy has raised $24 million from venture capitalists to continue to develop utility scale solar projects.  A manufacturer of electrical energy storage systems and drive components for electric and hybrid buses, Proterra has received $30 million from investors.