At EETimes' Green Engineering Summit, industry experts will weigh in on whether green engineering initiatives will open a path to well-paying jobs—and what skill sets these new jobs require.

Politicians like to talk a lot about the new well-paying jobs that green engineering initiatives will create in a bid for a decarbonized society. Strangely, there is hardly any talk about these new jobs in engineering forums.

During EE Times’ Green Engineering Summit, which is taking place virtually today through Thursday, a panel discussion planned for Sept. 15 titled “Alternative energy sources and related energy storage technologies” provides an opportunity to address that. The details about new engineering jobs in the renewable energy sector are high on this panel discussion’s agenda.

Take, for instance, the Climate Change Bill that aims to build the infrastructure for renewable energy in the coming years. Will it actually create hundreds of thousands of engineering jobs in solar, turbine and other areas? Some industry experts estimate it will create 9 million new jobs in the United States in the next 10 years.

10/17-19 EAC