Renewable energy added 100,000 jobs in 2024

Jobs of renewable energy grew more than three times faster than the rest of the American economy in 2024. However, future growth can be in danger, according to the 10th annual Clean jobs America report Released by E2.

The report showed that the renewable energy sector has added nearly 100,000 new jobs, so that the total number of employees in the renewable energy in the United States to 3.56 million. However, policy uncertainty and an overall delay in jobs and economic growth in 2024 led to the growth of renewable energy that has fallen to its slowest pace since 2020, which adds 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 United States and 82% of all new energy jobs that were added last year were in professions of renewable energy.

E2’s 10th annual Clean jobs America The report is because the industry of clean energy 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 bumping solar energy, wind, electric vehicles and other industries. These federal policy attacks even come as the American Bureau or Labor Statistics says The fastest growing professions in America 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 individual E2 researchSince January 2025, companies have been halting more than $ 22 billion planned planned clean energy -related factories and other projects that were expected to create 16,500 new jobs. Analysis by other organizations estimate More than 830,000 jobs can be lost Only because of the reversal of the energy policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by President Trump, signed in the law 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 the jobs of clean energy is running a serious risk – and therefore our overall economy,”

According to To the E2 reportClean Energy jobs are now good for 42% of all energy channels in America and 2.3% 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%- 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.”

Energy efficiency remains the top sector for American clean energy, by nearly 2.4 million employees nationwide after adding 91,000 jobs in 2024. This is followed by renewable generation (569,000 General, +9,000 in 2024) and clean vehicles (398,000 General, -12,000 in 2024). Despite an industrial decrease in all motor vehicle sectors in 2024, clean vehicle courts have grown by 52% since 2020, with 137,000 jobs.

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. See a detailed regional breakdown in the Full report.

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. See the table below for more information.

Methodology

This analysis of the employment of the American clean energy is based on employment data collected and analyzed by the BW Research Partnership for the 2025 US Energy and Employment Report (Useer). The U user analyzes data from the US Bureau or Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly scenus of employment and wages (QCEW) to follow employment in a lot of energy production, transmission and distribution sub -sectors. In addition, from 2025 the Useer relies on a unique additional study of 42,800 business representatives in the United States. Made and carried out by BW Research, the methodology is approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and US Department of Energy (Do). This survey is used to identify energy-related employment within important subsectors of the broader industries as classified by the BLS and to allocate them to their component energy and energy efficiency sectors.

A complete method for the sectors and types of jobs that contains this analysis and does not include is available In the report here.

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