The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), which is a comprehensive study that is designed to track and understand employment trends across the energy sector. This year’s report reflects a record number of survey responses from 42,000 business nationwide.
Note that this report includes all types of energy (not only clean energy). There is also an important data footnote listed at the end of this post.
Some clean energy workforce highlights from the report:
• In 2023, jobs in clean energy grew by 4.2%, more than twice as much as the job growth rate of 2.0% in the overall economy. Just under 5% of all new jobs created in the U.S. economy in 2023 were in clean energy.
• There are now approximately 3.5 million clean energy jobs (42% of the 8.35 million total energy jobs).
• Sectors experiencing significant growth include zero-emission vehicle and renewable energy, as well as transmission, distribution, and storage.
• Annual job growth was 5.3% in solar and 4.5% in the wind sector.
You can access the full report below or download it here. In addition, you can view the report and related materials (including state-level reports) online here.
This report has been added to Green Jobs Network collection of workforce reports & research.
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Footnote: What has not historically been counted (or reported) are the construction jobs associated with building and expanding clean energy manufacturing facilities. A supplemental survey in 2023 found an additional 28,000 jobs in the construction of new clean energy supply chain facilities, such as new or expanded battery and solar panel factories, ports to service offshore wind, and warehouses used for clean energy materials—all of which are needed to support the onshoring of clean energy supply chains. These jobs data, which are included in USEER for the first time in 2024, are separate from — and in addition — to the reported totals.