Demand growing for employees in renewable energy

Ashland Daily Tidings
April 14, 2008

By Diane Dietz
The (Eugene) Register-Guard

EUGENE — Thomas Brex is on top of the world now that he's on the roof at a massive construction project at Goodpasture Island Road.

He sought a purposeful career in renewable energy. He enrolled in the two-year energy program at Lane Community College and bam, before he could finish his second term he was snapped up by Advanced Energy Systems, a commercial solar energy company that installs massive photo voltaic arrays.

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