“Our experience working with customers shows that the current 25C credit of $500 is not enough to spur homeowner investment at a level that would put hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work,” the letter says.
Lost jobs
The pandemic and stay-at-home orders that followed decimated the U.S. clean energy industry, pushing roughly 600,000 people into unemployment since March, according to a tally from E2, an industry trade group.
More than 413,000 of those layoffs were among energy-efficiency workers, who, as technicians and mechanical experts, need to enter buildings and install new doors, windows, insulation, and heating and cooling systems. Social distancing requirements have made that task often impossible.
“We know that there is a real need to improve the efficiency of homes throughout America, and expanding this incentive pays all sorts of returns — lower utility bills, benefits to the environment, and now putting people back to work,” Dale Benander, Safety Manager of ABS Southeast in Worcester, Mass., said in a statement.
The request from Benander and his colleagues is more ambitious than the House and Senate bills Reps. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., and Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., introduced in October.
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