This brief presents estimates of the jobs created from California's renewable energy investments from 2003 through 2014, and forecasts job creation from continued development of renewable energy in California between 2015 and 2030 to meet a 50% renewables portfolio standard (RPS). The RPS is one of the key policy tools that comprise California's landmark climate policy, codified in AB 32, which requires California to sharply reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The state is on target for meeting the first RPS target of 33% renewable energy by 2020, and policy-makers are now considering increasing the RPS to 50% by 2030. Meeting these targets requires both public and private investments in generation infrastructure, which have created and will continue to create new jobs in California.
