ZBB Energy Corporation – Opportunity Grows https://www.opportunitygrows.com Tracking the Green Revolution Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:31:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Government incentives for green energy https://www.opportunitygrows.com/2010/08/16/government-incentives-for-green-energy/ https://www.opportunitygrows.com/2010/08/16/government-incentives-for-green-energy/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:07:33 +0000 https://www.opportunitygrows.com/?p=109 President Barack Obama tours the ZBB Energy Corporation with CEO and President Eric Apfelbach and Edward Zanger in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin today in order to tout the government’s incentives to promote green energy in the stimulus bill.

President Barack Obama said government incentives to expand clean-energy industries will help restore jobs, citing a battery maker in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, where he is highlighting the impact of the economic stimulus.

Obama used the example of ZBB Energy Corp., which is using a $1.3 million loan from the legislation to keep 12 workers on staff and eventually hire 80 more as it expands production.

“We expect our commitment to clean energy to lead to more than 800,000 jobs by 2012,” Obama said after a tour of the ZBB factory. “And that’s not just creating work in the short term; that’s going to help lay the foundation for lasting economic growth.”

It’s terribly disappointing that we have not been able to pass a comprehensive energy policy, as Republicans and coal-state Senators block progress.

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