Employment in the clean energy sector has grown more than double the rate of the rest of the energy sector and the U.S. economy overall.
That’s according to the 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), which was recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy. USEER is a comprehensive study designed to track and understand employment trends across the energy sector.
Clean energy jobs increased by 142,000 in 2023, “spurred by the Biden-Harris Administration’s record investments in climate, clean energy, and manufacturing,” the DOE said in a news release. The energy workforce added over 250,000 jobs last year, with 56 percent marked as being in clean energy.
Further, unionization rates in clean energy, measured at 12.4 percent, surpassed the average rate in the energy sector of 11 percent, driven by rapid growth in unionized construction and utility industries, according to the report, which reflected a record number of survey responses from 42,000 businesses in the USA.
The sectors experiencing significant growth include zero-emission vehicles and renewable energy, as well as transmission, distribution, and storage, the report said.
“Our policies are working. We are now starting to see the job impacts of investments made through the infrastructure and inflation reduction laws – first in construction and as America builds more of these factories, we’ll see hundreds of thousands more,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said. “The data clearly show that clean energy means jobs – good jobs, union jobs, and jobs retained – in communities across the country as we race to dominate the global clean energy economy”.
According to the report, the solar and wind sectors increased job growth by 5.3 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively. Jobs in clean energy grew in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In particular, Idaho had the fastest rate of clean energy job growth, increasing at 7.7 percent, followed by Texas at 6.0 percent, and New Mexico at 5.9 percent.
The energy construction sector added almost 90,000 energy jobs, growing 4.5 percent, with an additional 28,000 jobs for building new battery and solar module factories, ports for offshore wind, and warehouses to store and transport clean energy products. The energy industry sectors experiencing the highest job growth from 2022 to 2023 were utilities and construction, while the utilities sector saw the fastest employment growth of 5.0% in 2023, adding nearly 30,000 jobs.
“Thanks to the Biden-Harris administration’s historic investments, clean energy jobs are booming in every single state. With union density in clean energy at record highs, it’s clear we can create good jobs and advance a cleaner economy at the same time. And as the report shows, union labor makes a difference; employers report that working with unions has made it easier for them to find the skilled workers they need and hire a diverse workforce. We look forward to continuing to partner with Vice President Harris and the Department of Energy to ensure that clean energy jobs are good union jobs,” American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations President Liz Shuler said.
According to the DOE, the USEER began in 2016 to “better track and understand employment within key energy sectors that have been difficult or impossible to follow using other publicly available data sources”. The report is based on a customized energy employer survey that augments data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to produce estimates of employment and workforce characteristics.
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