The U.S. government has announced plans to help train 75,000 people to enter the solar workforce by 2020, including a number of veterans.

President Obama announced the expansion to a previous solar industry training plan  during a visit to Utah’s Hill Air Force Base on Friday.

The new initiative is a significant boost to the program announced last year that had set a goal of training 50,000 solar power workers by 2020.

The new goal is part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative, which helps fund research, manufacturing and market creation. The SunShot Initiative’s Solar Instructor Training Network works with 400 community colleges across the country for training, and claims to have already certified 1,000 solar instructors and nearly 30,000 students in the last five years.

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