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A study conducted at the U-M concluded that local wind and solar jobs can fully replace coal-plant jobs lost from the energy transition.

Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation's power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University of Michigan study led by SEAS Assistant Professor Michael Craig.

A new study quantifies the technical feasibility and costs of replacing these coal jobs for the first time.

Coal-fired power plants in the United States. Bubbles are scaled by plant capacity, which ranges from 5 to 3,500 MW. Image credit: From Vanatta et al. in iScience, August 2022 Study: The Costs of Replacing Coal Plant Jobs with Local instead of Distant Wind and Solar Jobs across the United States

In a new University of Michigan study, researchers set out to understand the air pollutant emissions impacts of electrifying motorcycle taxis in Kampala, Uganda. The findings indicate that electrified motorcycles can reduce emissions of global and some local air pollutants, yielding global and po