A presidential proclamation is allowing U.S. domestic solar power
equipment manufacturing duty-free access for up to two years to solar
cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. We
look at where the solar manufacturing projects in those countries have
been occurring … and where they’re coming from.
Dreaming of living your best life in a breezy aerie in Europe? Check the
rents first.
HousingAnywhere notes that the flexible and borderless lifestyle of the
digital nomad started well before the pandemic and has only accelerated
since. A rise in U.S. residents searching for a place in major European
cities has spurred a rise in rents. The platform’s International Rent Index by City informs us that
the top five countries seeing the biggest year-over-year increase in
U.S. residents searching for housing options are Spain, Italy, Germany,
the United Kingdom and Portugal. The top five cities are London, Berlin,
Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona.
“When cities and countries compete to attract and retain talent, many of
the traditional barriers are bound to break down,” says Djordy Seelmann,
CEO of HousingAnywhere. “Coupled with different value systems and
quality of life each location represents, we foresee that traditional
barriers will no longer stop people from living anywhere.” But rents
might.
For the 16th quarterly edition of the rent price index, HousingAnywhere
analyzed 57,104 properties in 23 cities on the European continent. The
sharpest upward spikes have come in Amsterdam, Reykjavik, Hamburg and
Barcelona. Not all have seen dramatic rises however: See Turin, The
Hague and Athens, or the rising but comparatively reasonable rents in
Brussels and Budapest. In the middle range of rents you’ll find
Rotterdam, where HousingAnywhere itself is based, employing 200.
Care to find a steady job while your carefree spirit roams? I examined
project data from Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database and found
221 projects in those 23 European cities dating back to January 2019.
Below is a list of the cities with the most projects since that month.
The cities on this list with the lowest current rent cost are Madrid and
Frankfurt. — Adam Bruns
All across Henderson, Nevada, powerful growth in the healthcare sector
is evident: in the construction of West Henderson Hospital, Valley
Health System’s $385 million facility opening in 2024; and in the $150
million expansion that Henderson Hospital completed in 2021. Henderson
Hospital also serves as an anchor for Union Village, one of the world’s
first integrated, mixed-use healthcare villages.
Located just 15 minutes from downtown Las Vegas, this city of over
325,000 offers compelling demographics as the state’s second largest
city and one of its fastest growing, with a robust and diversified
economy and a nationally noted quality of life. A precision-aligned
talent pipeline is also key: Five of the area’s institutions of higher
learning are focused on healthcare training while healthcare-related
studies make up 50% of earned degrees and certifications.
French aerospace company Safran earlier this month inaugurated three new
production sites in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, India, and announced the
construction of a major new facility in 2025. Safran has operated in
India for 65 years and now counts 10 facilities and 750 employees in the
country. The highest head count of new jobs will be at Digit, the
company’s new digital systems/IT operation, which will create up to
1,000 new jobs at this site in Hyderabad and another site in Mumbai.
“With these new sites, we’re opening a new chapter in Safran’s long
history with the Indian aerospace and defense industries, and we are
reaffirming our commitment to the government’s ‘Make in India’ policy
and sovereignty strategy,” said Olivier Andriès, CEO of Safran, of the
company’s overall plan. Among other factores, airline passenger traffic
is set to more than double in the next 20 years. “Through the creation
of our largest maintenance and repair center for commercial engines we
are also paving the way to expand our MRO activities in India to
military engines,” Andriès said. “With our three new production
facilities and our major in-house IT center we will triple the number of
employees in India over the next four years, building on the excellent
local talent base.”
As reported by Sioux Falls Business with Jodi Schwan and the Sioux Falls
Argus Leader, brothers Eric and Robbie Veurink are investing in this
60,612-sq.-ft. facility to manufacture floor and roof trusses and prefab
wall panels. The facility will be located in an industrial park
developed by the Hartford Area Development Foundation in this city
located on the northwest outskirts of Sioux Falls. Starting with 33
employees, the company plans to ramp up to as many as 70 within three
years. Among the factors driving the creation of the new operation is a
national lead time of up to six months for trusses. At the outset,
however, Black Tie will ship primarily within its region of the country.
“Amidst the unique challenges of a nation coming out of a global
pandemic, America’s energy sector stands out with considerable job
growth across nearly all industries,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy
Jennifer M. Granholm, former governor of Michigan, the No. 1
energy-job-creating state.
Photo courtesy of U.S. DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in late June released the 2022 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER),
which found that energy sector jobs grew by 4% from 2020 to 2021,
outpacing overall U.S. employment, which climbed 2.8% in the same
period. “Overall, the total number of energy jobs increased, from 7.5
million in 2020 to more than 7.8 million in 2021, after a steep decline
in 2020,” the DOE said. Moreover, many of those jobs are oriented toward
the cleaner side of the spectrum: “There are more than 3 million jobs,
40% of total energy jobs, that support reducing U.S. emissions to zero
across several sectors.” findings show that all industries, except for
fuels, experienced net-positive job growth in 2021, but the top three
were all cleantech oriented:
Electric vehicle jobs increased by 26.2%, adding 21,961 new jobs.
Hybrid electric vehicle jobs increased 19.7%, adding 23,577 new
jobs.
Solar energy jobs increased by 5.4%, adding 17,212 new jobs.
The three states with the highest energy job growth numbers overall
were:
Michigan, with 35,463 net jobs, including 5,136 new jobs in low or
zero-carbon motor vehicles;
Texas, gaining 30,903 net jobs, including 4,858 new jobs in low or
zero-carbon motor vehicles, 6,771 new jobs in in energy efficiency,
and 1,610 new jobs in solar.
California, gaining 29,429 energy jobs, including 11,050 new jobs in
in low or zero-carbon motor vehicles, 5,949 new jobs in energy
efficiency, and 1,994 new jobs in solar.
PHOTO OF THE
DAY
Sergii Rudiuk took this photo on July 14, 2013, near the Eiffel Tower in
Paris, France.
Photo: Getty Images
Today marks the celebration of Bastille Day, or la fête
nationale, in France. First established as a national holiday
in 1880, the celebration marks the date in 1789 when the Bastille, a
fortress turned state prison, fell to French revolutionaries seeking its
arms and ammunition. At the time, only seven political prisoners were
held there. Britannica in its entry notes a mundane historical detail
grounded more in real estate than heroics: The cost of maintaining the
facility had become prohibitive and talk of demolishing it had begun
circulating as much as five years before the storming of the Bastille
marked the end of the ancien régime.
