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Massive Job Counts Show Renewables, Efficiency Taking Hold in ‘Every U.S. Zip Code’

September 28, 2018
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The Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Boston regions lead the list of metropolitan areas that emerge as “America’s top 50 clean energy job engines,” producing 1.8 million jobs in energy efficiency and renewable energy—more than half of the country’s 3,176,8329 clean energy employment, Environmental Entrepreneurs reports in a survey released this week.

The 50 communities employ 162,051 more workers in energy efficiency alone than the entire U.S. fossil industry, and their renewable energy work force outnumbers coal workers nearly two-fold.

“Each day, more than three million Americans wake up and get to work building our clean energy economy,” E2 states. “These workers install solar panels atop our homes and commercial buildings, manufacture wind turbines, and reduce wasted energy by making our homes, schools, and offices more energy efficient. And they now work in every zip code in the country.”

The total count across 50 communities in 33 states: 1,286,816 jobs in energy efficiency and 328,336 in renewables as of May 2018. The total “includes all clean energy jobs categories, including solar, wind, energy efficiency, clean vehicles, battery storage, advanced biofuels, low-impact hydro, and other areas,” E2 states. (Disclosure: The Energy Mix publisher Mitchell Beer is a member of E2.)

Those “top 50 metros” account for 38% of all the clean energy jobs across the country—reinforcing E2’s point that this work force is both concentrated and widespread.

The analysis reveals that:

  • Despite Donald Trump’s obsessive efforts to resuscitate the country’s failing coal industry and compensate his oil and gas donors with a lavish deregulatory agenda, clean energy employment in the U.S. exceeds fossil jobs nearly three-fold.
  • There are as many energy efficiency workers as there are waiters and waitresses in America’s bars and restaurants.
  • The country employs as many clean energy workers as school teachers.
  • Renewable energy employees outnumber workers in agriculture, fishing, and forestry industries.
  • There are more solar energy workers in the U.S. than firefighters and pharmacists.
  • Clean energy means jobs for more than 350,000 veterans of America’s foreign wars, who make up 11.2% of the clean energy work force.

And E2 notes that “clean energy jobs are local jobs that cannot be outsourced.”

“I enjoy it, you know,” said steel press operator Paul Golphin of Cleveland, Ohio. “I am helping to build the future. We need more clean energy, making us not so reliant on fossil fuels, and we are bringing jobs back to the community. All that is our future.”

“I was looking for a profession with longevity and a good future,” said solar site assessor Kim Griffin of Amherst, Wisconsin. “That’s why I went with renewables.”

“Our work in providing cost-saving energy efficiency solutions makes it possible for an elderly widow to make ends meet, a single mother to buy groceries, or a young paralegal to pay their mortgage,” said Derrick Blue, interim CEO of the Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan in Tampa Bay, Florida.

While the top five on E2’s cities’ list are all in “blue states” based on 2016 voting patterns, the full list includes metropolitan areas in Texas (Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth place seventh and eighth, Austin 27th, and San Antonio 35th), Florida, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Utah, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and West Virginia.

In separate releases, Advanced Energy Economy points to more than 160,000 advanced energy jobs in Florida—more than real estate, and double the work force in department stores—despite the notorious decision by governor and U.S. senate candidate Rick Scott to ban references to climate change and global warming in state publications. In Texas, advanced energy employs 233,000 people, more than the combined work force in mining, oil, and gas, and double the number in auto dealerships.



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  1. Geoffrey Pounder says:
    4 years ago

    “Those “top 50 metros” account for 38% of all the clean energy jobs across the country—reinforcing E2’s point that this work force is both concentrated and widespread.”

    Typo. The actual figure reported by the survey is 58%.
    https://www.e2.org/cleanjobscities/

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