Jobs for Schone Energie grew more than three times faster than the rest of the American economy in 2024, added almost 100,000 new jobs and brought the total number of clean energy workers to 3,56 million, according to the tenth annual “Clean jobs America“Report released today by the National, non -party -related business group E2.
In the midst of policy uncertainty and an overall delay in work and economic growth in 2024, the growth of the jobs of clean energy has fallen to its slowest pace since 2020, with around 50,000 fewer jobs than in 2023.
Nevertheless, jobs in solar energy, wind, batteries, energy -efficiency, storage and grid and other subsectors of clean energy continued to grow faster than the wider economy, and are an increasing share of the general American workforce. More than 7% of all new jobs added in the US and 82% of all new energy jobs that were added last year were in professions of clean energy.
The 10th annual “Clean Jobs America” report from E2 is because the Clean Energy industry is faltering of recent federal policy decisions to kill projects, withdraw tax credits, to cancel permits and add new legal bureaucracy and legal obstacles aimed at the bumps of Zonnegie. These federal policy attacks even come when the American Bureau or Labor says Statistics Fastest growing professions In America there are wind turbine service technicians and photovoltaic installers of solar energy.
Although not reflected in the data from 2024, recent policy actions of the congress and the Trump administration have already resulted in large job losses in industry, with more expected. According to Separation E2 research, Since January 2025, companies have been halting more than $ 22 billion planned planned factories with clean energy consumption and other projects that are expected to create 16,500 new jobs. Analysis by other organizations estimate More than 830,000 jobs Could only be lost because of the reversing of the energy policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by President Trump, signed on July 4.
“What these figures show is that this was one of the most popular and most promising banensectors in the country at the end of 2024,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2. “Now the growth of clean energy runs a serious risk – and therefore our overall economy,”
According to the E2 report, it is now good for 42 percent of all energy channels in America and 2.3 percent of the total national workforce. More people now work in clean energy -related professions than working as nurses, cashiers, waiters and waitresses, or pre -school, elementary and high school teachers.
More than 520,000 jobs have now been added in the last five years due to the clean energy and clean vehicle sectors, an increase of 17 percent- much higher employment profits in fossil fuels, gas and diesel motor vehicles and the overall US economy.
While the sector has added the least jobs since the pandemic unemployment crisis, clean energy still grew more than three times faster than the rest of the American workforce (2.8% versus 0.8%) in the midst of an economy-wide delay in adoption and rising policy uncertainty. In the past five years, companies of Schone Energie have added 60% faster than the rest of the economy.
“Every year jobs of clean energy are intertwined and more critical for our overall economy,” said Michael Timberlake, director of research and publications for E2. “These jobs are now an essential anchor of America’s energy treatment. The power of the American labor market and the future of our energy economy are now inseparable from the growth of clean energy.”
In the past five years, no more region has added clean energy – jobs and faster than the south – now the home base of more than 1 million clean energy workers. From Texas to Virginia, Southern States, jobs of 41,000 clean energy added in 2024. Western and northeastern states added more than 20,000 jobs respectively. The midwest added more than 13,000 jobs.
At the level of the state, clean energy continues to stimulate economic prosperity. Twenty-three states are the home of at least 50,000 clean energy jobs and only eight states have more employees employed by fossil fuels than clean energy.
Seventeen states have seen their actual employees of clean energy rise at least 20% in the last five years.
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