Assuring Quality in the Clean Energy Economy: Why Credentials Are Important

The public sector has an important role in developing and implementing a framework for clean energy markets. Along with industry, government agencies can bring safeguards and value into the market structure.

The clean energy sector is growing, and it offers government agencies opportunities for economic development, environmental benefits, and growing local workforces. This is in spite of the green jobs hype and over expectations triggered by a broken economy in 2009 and 2010.

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