Worker Wednesday: September 27 and Virginia's Christina Hayes

Wednesday, September 27

WORKER SPOTLIGHT (brought to you by CE4AEF’s Faces of Clean Energy program)

For disaster preparedness month, we’re spotlighting clean energy professionals focused on grid modernization. Christina Hayes is executive director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid.

What is the most important thing about transmission or grid decarbonization that people should know? “You can't just, 'go forth and build wind, go forth and build solar.' You need the transmission to make it work, not only do you need it to get from high-yield areas,” she said at a 2022 CE4A event on grid modernization and resilience.

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NEW FACTORY ANNOUNCEMENTS (Here are social posts to amplify new factories resulting from the president’s Affordable Clean Energy Plan.)

South Carolina: Canada's Silfab to set up solar cell factory in South Carolina

• [🖱Click to Tweet] What's the impact of @POTUS's Affordable #CleanEnergy Plan? More jobs
  and more jobs 

  and more jobs

  and more jobs

  and more jobs

  Now, 800 more #solar jobs are coming to northern South Carolina via Canada's Silfab Solar new, $150M factory.

• [🖱Click to Tweet] Wow, another international manufacturer is announcing NEW JOBS IN AMERICA thanks to the @POTUS' Affordable #CleanEnergy Plan. This time it’s 800 manufacturing roles at Canada's Silfab #Solar plant in South Carolina. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/canadas-silfab-set-up-solar-cell-factory-south-carolina-2023-09-19/