Phasing out fossil fuels requires a lot of clean energy infrastructure, like solar farms. Now workers in one sun-soaked part of our region are grabbing a share of that green gold rush. They're retraining workers to handle the growth in solar. The Mountain West News Bureau's Kaleb Roedel reports.
How one state is helping increase the solar workforce
![Francisco Valenzuela works on installing a support structure common on large-scale solar farms during training at the Northern Nevada Laborers Training Center in Storey County, Nev., on June 23, 2023.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ed51e4f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/832x621+0+0/resize/880x657!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcf%2Fb5%2Fbe7d6e1b46249c2dda64716e4a8e%2Fscreenshot-2023-07-28-084847.png)
Kaleb Roedel
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Mountain West News Bureau