The Broward County Green Workforce Innovation Project

White Paper

April 2010

Sponsors Citi Foundation

$50,000 grant The Greater Fort

Lauderdale/Broward Economic Development Alliance

Broward College The Broward College

Foundation Workforce One The Green Workforce

Think Tank

Barbra Romani, Citi Director of Community Relations, and J. David Armstrong Jr., President of Broward College

Objective Create study that informs the effort to foster the

growth of green jobs for low to middle income communities. Learn where green jobs will emerge Look for ways to encourage their development through:

Training Programs Public Policy Initiatives

Definition What are green jobs? The Clean Energy Report,

PEW Center Clean Energy Energy Efficiency Environmentally Friendly

Production Conservation and Pollution

Mitigation Training and Support

Examples of Green Jobs Clean energy

Photovoltaic System Installer and Designer

Energy efficiency Weatherization Technician

Environmentally friendly production Sustainability Director

Conservation and Pollution mitigation Technician at Waste-to-Energy Plant

Methodology Broward County Targeted Industries Study

DCG Corplan Consulting LLC nationally-renowned economic development consulting and

site selection firm Year long study commissioned in April of 2008. Intended to encourage development of high skill/high

wage jobs Biomass—“essential to preserve (the) state’s status in

the innovation economy” Photovoltaics—“prevalent” and having “great potential

for the south Florida market area” Used study to identify green sectors likely to grow Did case studies on ideal businesses in these

sectors

Primary Sectors Case Studies Energy

Efficiency Solar

Technology Biomass

Minority Builders Coalition Advanced Green Technologies Wheelabrator Technologies

Energy Efficiency Increasing the

efficiency of buildings and equipment

Growth trend in 2009 Broward College saved

$7.5 million 1997-2008 Over $4 million in job

training grants

Energy Efficiency – The Broward County Minority Builders Coalition 70 Contractors across Florida Began in 1973 One of the largest providers of

weatherization services in Florida $3.2 million grant

Training for 700 jobs over 2 years in: Weatherization Solar PV Solar Thermal LEED Green Associate

OIC, BTC, AGT, IBEW, BAND Minority Builders Coalition will place

280 in weatherization jobs

Three Ways to Green Jobs Solar America Cities Project, U. S. DOE,

2010 Foster growth of green jobs with:

Job training programs Financing initiatives Outreach programs

Energy Efficiency – PACE financing Property Assessed Clean

Energy Financing Financed by bonds Repaid through property taxes 20 year amortization Financing stays with property Interest rates 3-8% Sonoma Model

Youth Green Jobs Sonoma 8.4% increase in construction County investments used

FL legislation passed Senate & House committee March 17th

One of the top ten breakthrough ideas of 2010—Harvard Business Review Cell phone financing model

Energy Efficiency: Recommendations Broward County should research best practices for PACE

programs. Broward County Climate Change Action Plan Action MI-2.1

Broward County should seek to coordinate a PACE program with the existing job training programs.

Broward County should consider using public investments to fund PACE bonds.

The PACE program should be considered an ongoing public service.

The private bond market should be included in the PACE program.

Information from the program should be used to improve consumer decisions, insure quality control, highlight benefits of program, and conduct research.

Broward County should consider working with neighboring counties to form a regional PACE program that provides lower rates.

Solar Technology Targeted Industry Study:

“great potential for the south Florida market area”

PV Prices dropping Thin film solar cells Silicon prices dropping

County plans to move its buildings to renewable energy

Manufactures are applying for funding to come.

Thin Film Solar Cells

Solar Technology: Advanced Green Technologies, Inc. Spin off from Advanced Roofing, Inc. Trains roofers to install solar technology Relationships with roofing companies across U.

S. Part of Minority Builders job training grant

project. Place 200 trainees Broward Technical Centers

Unfunded Rebate Training program

“may go to waste” Rob Kornahrens, President of Advanced Roofing, Inc., and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

Solar Technology Financing PACE financing

Distributed/Centralized Revolving loan

Partnership for Sustainability FPL Sunshine Energy Program 80% a dollar a month Annual Budgets for Environmental NPOs

Greenpeace’s $146 million Sierra Club $80 million The Natural Resource Defense Fund over $76 million The Environmental Defense Fund over $50 million The Wilderness Society is over $25 million.

40% of wind energy costs vary with respect financing model, according to 1996 DOE report.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science installation financed by Partnership for Sustainability

Solar Technology: Recommendations Broward County should consider developing a

revolving loan fund for photovoltaic technology installations that is implemented through a PACE program. The Broward County Climate Change Action

Plan (Action MI-2.2) recommends that a voluntary check box be placed on property tax bills and other billing instruments in order to generate funds for renewable energy projects.

Biomass Creating energy from

agricultural & domestic waste.

Targeted Industry Study describes it as being “essential to preserve (the) state’s status in the innovation economy.”

Clean Energy Trends 2010 describes industry expansion.

State and county plan to increase waste sent to waste-to-energy plants.

Biomass

Source PEW Center on Global Climate Change

Biomass: Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. In Broward since 1991 Two plants Use Municipal waste generate 134

megawatts Enough for 77,000

homes Reduce landfill use 90% Over 100 employees

Plants can be operated by 6

They operate at capacity

South Broward

Biomass Recommendations State and County should increase waste sent

to waste-to-energy plants in a responsible fashion.

Biomass and biofuel technologies should be included in the County PACE program as in Vermont, Colorado, Nevada, Louisiana, and New York .

Research into the Future

Water Turbines Not intermittent $1.2 million

grant to FAU

The Gulf Stream

Conclusion Opportunities

PACE financing Coordinate financing

programs with job training programs.

References www.greenworkforce.wordpress.com/

See Documents and PACE page.