And everybody has heard the promises from politicians that they'll bring jobs back to the area: in 2011, President Obama visited GE with its CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, and talked about modernization and new investment in the facility for renewable energy, spurred on by a $5m grant and a package of tax breaks for the company.
The energy crisis is driving greater interest in renewable energy, spurring new research in solar power and wind power.
We have entered an era of cheap, abundant energy, spurred by shale oil and gas, innovation in renewables, batteries, long-distance powerlines and electric vehicles (EVs).
What can we learn from previous protests and use that knowledge and energy to spur the Institute to create ethical policies?
With the federal government slow to innovate in the sector, state officials are hoping to provide crucial support for clean energy and spur economic growth.
On most days, instead, he happily rides the tiger of Russian oil expansion, hoping among other things that growth in energy will spur the rest of the economy.
"This planned $1.5 billion investment in wind energy will spur tremendous growth in the renewable energy sector," Mr. McGarr was quoted in a news release as saying, "and directly create hundreds of high-paying American jobs".
They will hear that we want to invest in clean, renewable energy and spur American innovation and job growth.
Everywhere, the anything-might-happen energy has spurred a desperation to create.
The state's economy also benefits from its energy sector, spurred along by high commodity prices.
