A WORLD OF CHANGE

While industry strives to find an alternative energy solution to depleting fossil fuels, alternative energy technologies represent prime venture capital investment potential, creating unprecedented business opportunities for startups and established companies alike.

• Clean energy alternatives will account for more than half of the energy produced around the world by 2020, dramatically altering the global economic balance of power.
• Today's alternative energy startups will be tomorrow's worldwide power brokers, as conventional fuel companies and utilities form alliances to ensure the continuous uninterruptable generation of electricity.
• The renewable energy industry will be a major creator of jobs over the next ten years; production of photo voltaic cells and inverters in Ohio will more than triple in the next several years.
• Demand for technicians trained to construct, install, troubleshoot, modify and test multiple types of alternative energy equipment is on the rise and Hocking College is a forerunner in that educational delivery.