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The Wisconsin Jobs Project: A Guide to Creating Jobs in Sensors & Controls for Advanced Energy

The Wisconsin Jobs Project: A Guide to Creating Jobs in Sensors & Controls for Advanced Energy

Full Title: The Wisconsin Jobs Project: A Guide to Creating Jobs in Sensors & Controls for Advanced Energy
Author(s): The American Jobs Project
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Publication Date: January 1, 2018
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Description (excerpt):

The American Jobs Project was born of two tough problems: the loss of middle-income jobs
and congressional paralysis in the United States. It seeks to address these problems by taking
advantage of one of the biggest market opportunities of our era—the advanced energy sector—
and by doing so at the state, not the federal, level. State and local leaders who leverage the
unique strategic advantages of their state to develop advanced energy economic clusters are
poised to create quality jobs.

Wisconsin is faced with a growing need for skilled talent that is exacerbated by an aging
workforce, out-migration, and a significant underemployed and long-term unemployed
population. Efforts to foster good-paying manufacturing jobs and strengthen talent
recruitment and retention could bolster the state’s economy.

Extensive research and more than seventy interviews with stakeholders and experts in Wisconsin
have identified sensors and controls as showing significant promise as a job creator and economic
driver in the state. More than ever, advanced energy systems require extensive monitoring and
operational controls to optimize production, minimize energy use, and leverage storage. Sensors
and controls are hardware solutions that enable these technologies to be nimble and responsive
to changing system-level conditions, such as weather patterns, available input resources, and
energy demand. Wisconsin is well positioned to tap into market growth in this sector and rising
demand for sensor- and control-embedded end-use technologies, such as biogas, efficiency,
grid, and solar.

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