The number of jobs in the US solar sector increased by 5.3% between 2022 and 2023, the most growth of any other electricity generating technology. Image: Rachel Gentile and the US Department of Energy, via Flickr.
The US added 142,000 jobs to its clean energy sector in 2023, accounting for more than half of all new jobs added to the US energy industry. Solar led the way in this regard, with 18,401 new jobs added to the US electricity generating industry in 2023, a 5.3% year-on-year increase, and more than any other electricity generating technology.
These are the headline takeaways from the ‘U.S. Energy and Employment Report’, published this week by the US Department of Energy (DOE), covering changes in US energy employment figures in 2023. Based on both the strong growth in solar jobs in 2023, and its historically leading position in employment figures, the US solar sector now employs 364,544 people, close to treble the 131,327 people employed in the wind industry, which is the second-largest sector by number of employees.
(The above content is reproduced from pv-tech，By Jonathan Touriño Jacobo）
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