New Report: Clean Energy Jobs Grew To 90,772 In Pennsylvania In 2018

On June 18, the Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance, Green Building Alliance, Sustainable Business Network and E2-Enviro Entrepreneurs released their 2019 annual report on clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania which topped 90,000 jobs for the first time in 2018.

Pennsylvania’s clean energy sector continued its strong growth trend in 2018, topping 90,772 employees for the first time and adding jobs five times faster than the overall state employment growth rate.

Led by one of the nation’s top energy efficiency industries and supported by burgeoning renewable energy and clean vehicle sectors, Pennsylvania has developed one of the strongest diversified clean economies in the country with rural communities benefiting right alongside the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh metro areas.

According to Clean Jobs Pennsylvania 2019, energy efficiency remains the largest clean energy employer with nearly 69,000 jobs. More Pennsylvanians also work in the renewable energy (9,200 jobs) and clean vehicles (7,800) sectors than ever before

Since 2014, Pennsylvania has increased its workforce in clean technologies like renewables, energy efficiency, clean vehicles, storage, and grid modernization by nearly 60 percent – employing now twice as many workers as the state’s entire fossil fuel industry.

This recent growth over the past several years has put Pennsylvania within 4,400 jobs of overtaking Virginia as the No. 10 state in the U.S. for clean energy employment.

Other highlights of the report--

-- Construction (45.9 percent) and manufacturing (19.8 percent) make up the majority of clean energy jobs.

-- Since 2014, Pennsylvania’s clean energy workforce has grown from 57,000 to over 90,000

3,553 Pennsylvanians now work in grid modernization (1,861) and energy storage (1,692)

11,000 clean energy jobs in the state’s rural areas

-- Clean energy jobs now account for one out of every three energy jobs in Pennsylvania and employs more than twice the number of workers (90,772) as Pennsylvania’s entire fossil fuel industry (43,306).

-- 44 percent of Pennsylvania’s clean energy workforce is located outside the Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania metro areas

-- Two out of every three Pennsylvania clean energy workers is employed by a businesses with fewer than 20 employees

-- Electric power generation jobs using fossil fuels (4,935) employed 4,274 less workers than renewable energy generation jobs (9,209)

-- 9.7 percent of Pennsylvanians employed in clean energy are veterans, compared to the national average (6 percent)

-- 18 of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts are home to at least 1,400 clean jobs with 15 supporting over 3,000

-- While fourth overall, Lehigh County led the state in clean jobs per capita with over 25 clean jobs per 1,000 employable residents

-- 19 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties employ at least 1,000 clean energy workers

Click Here for a copy of the report.

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