Clean Energy, Employment Stats for 2024

The 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) is out, and there has been some impressive progress in the clean energy sector, with jobs in clean energy increasing in every state.

Here is a recap of all the important details from the five energy tech categories: energy efficiency, electric power generation, motor vehicles, fuels, and transmission, distribution, and storage. 

Clean Energy Jobs

Overall job growth in America rang in at 2% in 2023, but clean energy jobs grew by 4.2% — twice the rate of those in other sectors. 142,000 new jobs were added in the sector.

Thanks to the Biden-Harris “Investing in America” agenda, there have been record-breaking investments in the clean energy sector’s supply chains.

Unionization in Clean Energy

The average rates of unionization in traditional energy are typically 11% but, for the clean energy sector, this grew to 12.4% in 2023.

In addition, compared to a year earlier, employers in the sector found it much less difficult hiring qualified workers than those not in unions.

Manufacturing Facilities

From 2021 to date, more than 800 manufacturing facilities in clean energy have been kick started, creating a spike in construction jobs.

While construction jobs in all sectors in the country saw a growth of 2.3%, those in the energy sector grew by 4.5%.

Clean Energy Employment Demographics

A lot of the employees in clean energy are younger than the average workers in other areas, with 29% of them being under 30 years old. Veterans in the USA make up 5% of the overall workforce, but in clean energy, this was reported as 9%.

The number of Latino and Hispanic employees hired in 2023 grew by 79,000, which is a third of all the new jobs created in the sector. For a more in-depth analysis, you can read the full report here. 

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