The Obama administration unveiled a program Friday that will train transitioning troops at 10military bases across the country how to build and maintain solar energy farms, and prep them to become one of 75,000 employees it hopes to add to the solar workforce by 2020.
The future of solar energy seemed uncertain a generation ago when the Carter administration set lofty goals that fizzled. But the technology is becoming cheaper and more efficient, and the Defense Department — one of the world’s top energy users — has been adding solar facilities to bases in the United States and abroad at a rapid clip in recent years.
“We can’t maintain the best military the world has ever known unless we have an economy that is humming,” President Barack Obama said during a trip to Hill Air Force Base in Utah.
Obama said the initiative will help set up vets in an industry that is adding jobs 10 times faster than other areas of the economy.
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