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Nearly 3.6 million Americans work across 47 clean energy subsectors
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520,000 jobs added over last five years, far surpassing growth in fossil fuel and gas and diesel motor vehicle sectors
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7% of all new US jobs and 82 % of all new energy sector jobs were in clean energy in 2024
WASHINGTON – Clean energy jobs grew more than three times faster than the rest of the U.S. economy in 2024, adding almost 100,000 new jobs and bringing total number of clean energy workers in U.S. to 3.56 million, according to the tenth annual Clean Jobs America report released today by the national, nonpartisan business group E2.
Amid policy uncertainty and an overall slowing of job and economic growth in 2024, the growth in clean energy jobs dropped to its slowest pace since 2020, adding about 50,000 fewer jobs than in 2023.
Still, jobs in solar, wind, batteries, energy efficiency, storage and grid and other clean energy subsectors continued to…
