“Clean energy” development accounted for 6 percent of all new employment in the United States in 2023, adding 142,000 jobs to the nation’s collective payroll, according to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report released on Aug. 28.
The DOE’s 227 page 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) states the nation’s overall energy workforce grew by more than 250,000 jobs, or 2 percent, in 2023 with 56 percent of those new jobs in clean energy—primarily solar, wind, and construction of related infrastructure.
The DOE said the report, an annual study established in 2016 to track employment trends in the energy sector, includes data from utilities and 42,000 businesses and documents a 4.2 percent hike in clean energy jobs….