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In The News
January 23, 2009
Component Manufacturing: Kansas’ Future in the Renewable Energy Industry (REPP report)

Summary: A national renewable energy program would provide significant benefits to Kansas manufacturing - generating $1.97 billion in investment, spurring innovation in 425 existing Kansas manufacturing firms, and creating 11,491 new jobs. Kansas manufacturers could become major components suppliers, making billions and driving the new energy economy.

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Author: Renewable Energy Policy Project (REPP)
Title: “Component Manufacturing: Kansas’ Future in the Renewable Energy Industry” Original
Publication Date: April 2008
Files:
For .pdf of full report, click here.
For four page color brochure summary or report, click here.
For press release on launch of Kansas chapter of the Blue Green Alliance, click here.
For a .pdf summary of REPP report, click here.

This report breaks down renewable generation technologies into component parts, and examines which existing Kansas industries could become suppliers for the growing sector of renewable energy.

The conclusion: Kansas manufacturers could make billions and help drive the new energy economy.

MAJOR FINDINGS:
  • From January 2001-June 2007, Kansas lost 10,944 manufacturing jobs.
  • To stabilize carbon emissions would require adding 18,500 MW of new renewable energy projects each year, as part of a 10 year stabilization program.
  • The study assumed that nation-wide, 124,900 MW of wind would be developed, 15,190 MW of photovoltaic, 23,150 MW of biomass, and 21,760 MW of geothermal.
What these numbers mean for Kansas:
  • 425 firms currently active in the industrial sectors could supply component parts.
  • The demand would spur the creation of 11,491 new Kansas jobs.
  • The top 10 Kansas counties most likely to benefit (in order of impact): Saline, Johnson, Sedgwick, Ellis, Wyandotte, Barton, Montgomery, Crawford, Reno, and Ford.
Over the past decades, the Midwest has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs - yet its cities and towns still have the facilities, infrastructure, and labor forces, all ready to go.

Manufacturing for the renewables industry could re-industrialize and revive our state.

REPP KS jobs table

The benefits - especially from wind manufacturing - could spread across several Kansas counties.

REPP counties table
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