In a bid to promote solar power as an economic fuel, US President Barack Obama on Friday announced a training program of 75,000 workers under the US Division of Power by the year 2020.

The training of workers will be carried on such a large scale in order to fill up the vacancies in the growing solar energy market. Moreover, the initiative is also being seen as a strategy against the degrading climatic conditions and global warming as the renewable solar energy will be harvested for various purposes rather than opting for fossil fuel burning, one of the activities that add to the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Nearly 30,000 jobs were added from 2013 to 2014 in the solar market industry. Experts believe an additional of 36,000 more jobs in the sector this year will further bolster the federal effort for reducing the rate of unemployment in the country as well as cut down the use of non-renewable source of energy, such as fossil fuel.

This week, the Obama administration announced its plans to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 28 percent lower than 2005 levels, a significant feat within a ten-year period.

The federal government will encourage solar energy market as well as business by raising its workforce.

 

Around 400 community colleges countrywide will be given responsibility to train and re-train the students and instructors to use and maximize their use for home as well as industrial purposes.