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Schneider Electric and Boston University Joint-Study Reveals Over 2 million New Jobs Can Be Created During the Transition to Net-Zero Buildings

AGÊNCIA DE COMUNICAÇÃO Conteúdo de responsabilidade da empresa 10 de outubro de 2023

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Rueil-Malmaison (France), 10 October 2023 Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, together with Boston University, today announces a first-of-its-kind study that finds that more than 2 million new jobs and up to 141 million additional job years can be created in Europe and the United States by adopting clean energy technologies in new and retrofitted buildings. The results come from a research collaboration between the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and the Schneider ElectricTM Sustainability Research Institute (SRI).

The open-access paper, Building a Green Future: Examining the Job Creation Potential of Electricity, Heating, and Storage in Low-Carbon Buildings, is the first to estimate job creation in low-carbon buildings of the future at such a granular level. Taking a micro-scale view, the study estimates the global employment outcomes for low-carbon building archetypes spanning residential, hospital, hotel, office, retail, and education in regions of North America, Europe and Asia. The data focused specifically on the potential around deploying rooftop solar panels, heat pumps, and energy storage batteries for self-produced (or prosumer) renewable energy. These low-carbon technologiesall of which are readily available todaysupport the electrification and digitalization of the buildings sector, which is critical to reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. The studys job estimates will be fully realized over time in alignment with global net-zero goals targeting 2050, making this a reasonable timeline for 100% renovation of eligible buildings.

It is increasingly clear that, thanks to modern technologies, it is now feasible to rapidly transition buildings to net-zero, explained Vincent Petit, Senior Vice President of Climate and Energy Transition Research at Schneider Electric and Head of the SRI. What we often do not realize is that such a transition comes with significant socioeconomic benefits. This research is another demonstration of this fact.

Key findings:

Employment is often a polarizing topic at the center of the transition to a net-zero economy, mired in uncertainty about emerging opportunities in green energy, stated Benjamin Sovacool, Director, Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability and Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences. This study brings greater detail to the sizable potential for new jobs created by low-carbon buildings, a compelling co-benefit of decarbonization that could have the power to ease social and economic concerns and positively shape climate policy.  

These findings can drive significant benefits in the near term, making the detailed estimations useful for informing companies, communities, and governments seeking to engage in building projects. For policymakers, understanding the potential that the transition to net-zero living can have on creating jobs could potentially incentivize skeptics to favor a green energy shift. For business decision makers, job estimates can improve forecasts around scope, investment, lifecycle management and impact for building projects.

Access to the research paper and reference:

Sovacool, BK, D Evensen, TA Kwan and V Petit. Building a Green Future: Examining the Job Creation Potential of Electricity, Heating, and Storage in Low-Carbon Buildings, Electricity Journal 36(5) (June, 2023), 107274, pp. 1-11. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2023.107274

Access to Schneider ElectricTM Sustainability Research Institute report

Schneider Electric, 2022, July 13. Towards net-zero buildings: a quantitative study. Sustainability Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA and Grenoble, France. Retrieved from: https://www.se.com/ww/en/insights/sustainability/sustainability-research-institute/building-a-green-future.jsp


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