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New York City's Climate Week (a.k.a. NY Climate Week) starts in 4 weeks. Navigating the festival can be very overwhelming (think mega-conference spread out over the entire city) I compiled many climate week events on a Luma calendar that allows filtering by date and map view. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gDx92T_9 Comment below or message me if I'm missing any events you'd like me to add! I Hope you find it useful! I'll be sharing some tips from attending Climate Week 2023 in a subsequent post, stay tuned! #climatetechlist #nycw2024 #climateweek2024 #newyorkclimateweek #events

👉 If you're attending any part of NY Climate Week 2024🗽, RSVP to this LinkedIn event so other attendees in your network will know you're attending as well! (and vice versa) 👥 Also, see the opt-in attendee directory here: https://lnkd.in/gmQU6GMx (consider adding yourself here https://lnkd.in/g_DhJng6) *LONG* Every year I attend NY Climate Week and have trouble answering the question- who else in my network is attending so we can try to catch up in person? Inevitably on the last day of the week I end up running into someone I know but not having enough time to catch up/meet. At last year's NY Climate Week, a couple of friends and I decided to create a LinkedIn event for the entire week and try to get as many people who are attending as possible to RSVP. That way, we'd get network effects and anyone could look at the attendees list to see which of their mutuals are attending as well. So this event is the result of that discussion from 2023! In conclusion, if you're attending any part of NY Climate Week 2024, RSVP to this LinkedIn event so other attendees in your network will know you're attending as well! #nycw #climateweek2024 #newyorkclimateweek #events

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is expected to create over 300,000 clean energy manufacturing jobs and 400+ factories/sites, including: - 123,000 jobs in battery manufacturing - 217,000 jobs in electric vehicle manufacturing - 35,000 jobs in solar - 8,400 jobs in wind This is according to Jay Turner & Rena R.'s The Big Green Machine- North American Clean Energy Supply Chain database which aggregates company press releases, articles, and other reports to describe the impact of the IRA. The database details the status of projects, along with other critical information like capital investment and projected job creation. Out of the 455 projects in the database, 176 sites are operating at full or partial capacity, 68 sites are under construction, and 167 sites are planned. 👉 Read the full ClimateTechList blog post analyzing the impact of the IRA on job creation here: https://lnkd.in/ghZYUXxh #climatetechlist #inflationreductionact #blog #biggreenmachine #jobgrowth #manufacturingjobs

Mechanical, hardware, and chemical engineers are among the hardest-to-fill/hardest-to-hire roles for climate tech companies, with time-to-fill times longer than even machine learning engineering roles. ClimateTechList teamed up with data scientist/engineer Jason Zou to analyze our dataset of ~60,000 job posts from 900 climate tech companies posted in the last 6 months. Specifically, we found that the time-to-fill for the following roles were: - Sales: 31.9 days - Marketing: 35.9 - Analyst: 36.0 - Design: 38.5 - Data Science: 40.3 - Product Management: 41.5 - Operations: 42 - Electrical Engineer: 47.1 - Software Eng: 48.2 - Machine Learning Eng: 48.3 - Mechanical Eng: 49.0 - Hardware Eng: 50.2 - Chemical Eng: 51.5 Engineering jobs associated with physical production are hard to hire, namely mechanical engineering, hardware engineering, and chemical engineering, all of which take almost 2x as long to fill (50 days) as sales jobs. Even machine learning engineering positions, in high demand from the AI boom, are filled at a slightly faster rate than these 3 positions Possible reasons for this effect - many of these jobs require in-person work, which makes job matching jobs to candidates inherently more difficult - Federal legislation of the last few years- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act are all driving massive investments into U.S. physical infrastructure and manufacturing. These investments disproportionally require talent with physical-product engineering skills more than software engineering skills. 👉 For more insights on hiring trends by company, country and climate tech vertical, see our latest climate tech hiring trends report here: https://lnkd.in/gpMCaSZ6 #climatetechlist #decarbonization #energytransition #chemicalengineering #mechanicalengineering #hardwareengineering #hiringtrends

✨Feature announcement✨: Interconnection.fyi now allows you to see how renewable energy projects are changing across the U.S. in real time. We already pull project & and interconnection data from 27 grid entities (7 ISOs and 20 utilities) at least once a day, this feature will allow you to see the most recent changes as well. The example video below shows a 130-megawatt solar project named Talitha Solar in Jim Wells County, Texas, in the last week delaying its proposed completion date from June 2024 to April 2025. Visit the front page of Interconnection.fyi to view the auto-scrolling banner of changes, or visit https://lnkd.in/dWXUY5GP for the full list of changes in the last week. *** ℹ️ For those new to the renewable energy space, here's a primer on interconnection queues and why it's important: The U.S. currently has 1.3 **terawatts** of electric generation capacity awaiting regulatory approval (equivalent to enough power 500-600million homes at a given time) This regulatory approval process is called the interconnection queue. The queue is a list of power generation and transmission projects that have requested to connect to the electric grid. The queue is managed by the grid operator (of which the US has many) ℹ️ Why is the interconnection queue important? The interconnection queue ensures that new power generation and transmission projects can be safely and reliably connected to the grid. The grid operator reviews each project to assess its impact on the grid and to make sure that it will not compromise the reliability of the electric system. ℹ️ Why is the interconnection queue important for climate goals/decarbonization targets? Queues have become one of, if not the critical bottleneck for the deployment of renewable energy. Renewables and clean energy are being financed fast enough, but the grid is woefully underprepared to deliver this newly generated power to consumers. In other words: A renewable power plant/generation asset that's not connected to the grid/not connected to any load is useless. #interconnectionfyi #decarbonization #climatetech #cleanenergy

398 climate tech 🍃🌐 companies posted 2747 new job openings in the last week, including: 🏠 Arch: Senior full-stack software engineer 🔬 Zap Energy: R&D Electrical Engineer 🚚 Forum Mobility: Manager, Finance 💡 LineVision: Computer Vision Expert, Data Scientist 🌳 Arbor: Lead Frontend / Full Stack Software Engineer 🌞 Sistema bio: Business Development Associate| India |Gurgaon, Technical Operations Officer | Global | Nairobi, Procurement & Logistics Coordinator, & 2 more jobs 🚄 Metro Africa Xpress: Pipeline/Lead Conversion Manager - Gwagwalada, Vision Testing Officer - Gwagwalada, Facility/Administative Supervisor, & 5 more jobs 💡 Ovo Energy: Domestic Energy Assessor - Nottingham, Domestic Energy Assessor - Bristol, Domestic Energy Assessor - Derbyshire, & 21 more jobs 🌞 TRINA SOLAR LTD: Supplier Quality Engineer, Health, Safety and Environmental Manager Energy Storage, Head of Legal, M&A, & 18 more jobs 🚗 Tesla: Software Engineer, EHS Application, Software Product Manager (m/w/d) – Gigafactory Berlin -Brandenburg, Maintenance Supervisor, Press Model Y, & 432 more jobs 🌏 Ecobee: Staff Product Manager, Mobile Platform, Research Operations Coordinator, Sales Manager (Energy) - Canada, & 13 more jobs 🏡 Freedom Forever: Full Stack Software Engineer, Warehouse Coordinator (Solar), Traveling Surveyor, & 16 more jobs ⚡️ Electric Hydrogen: Senior NPI Engineer - Electrical Engineer, Staff Mechanical Engineer - Power Systems, R&D-Data Analysis Co-Op, & 4 more jobs 🍎 Misfits Market: Inventory Associate, 1st Shift - Forklift Operator, 2nd Shift - Quality Assurance Associate, & 16 more jobs 💨 Dandelion Energy: Field Operations Coordinator, Driller Helper/Construction Laborer, Customer Support Representative, & 6 more jobs Check out ClimateTechList 🍃🌎, the web's most comprehensive climate tech job board. It aggregates 30,000+ job openings daily from over 1000 climate tech companies' job board pages. 👉 climatetechlist.com/jobs You can join our talent collective and get matched with climate/climate tech jobs & companies directly. Follow me for more tools and tips for your climate tech job search #climatetechlist #climatetech #resources #climatejobs #jobsearch #climatechange #softwareengineer #hiring #datascience

Fascinating insights from Interconnection.fyi shed light on the current challenges within the U.S. electricity interconnection grid. While the potential for tripling clean energy supply from solar, nuclear, hydro, and wind sources exists, the effectiveness of this energy is compromised if it cannot be seamlessly connected and distributed. A notable hurdle lies in the grid interconnection queue, with a considerable backlog (10,779 solar projects) awaiting integration. The staggering challenge uncovered by the model: ⚠ "The U.S. currently has 1.3 **terawatts** of electric generation capacity awaiting regulatory approval. ▶ That's a massive amount of electricity generation capacity: ▶ 1 terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts. Each gigawatt in turn can power 0.5 to 1 million average U.S. homes at a given time." Grid capacity, regulatory policies, and permitting all contribute to the backlog, but solving this challenge may be the make or break moment for meeting energy targets.