Oil Industry Layoffs Are Driving Texas Workers To The State's Booming Solar Power Sector

With low oil prices driving massive layoffs across America’s oil fields, workers in Texas are looking to greener pastures. Rig hands, pipe fitters and equipment haulers are increasingly finding jobs within the Lone Star State’s solar power sector, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.

“People joke about how it is the new boom,” Servando Sendejo, an oil field engineer, told the newspaper.