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Fact Sheet: Jobs in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (2015) | White Papers | EESI
Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Employment
The following sections provide employment assessments by government agencies, nonprofits and industry groups for the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors. Many of the assessments include direct employment (directly related to on-site operations), indirect employment (resulting from the supply of materials to on-site operations), and induced employment (employment that arises from the generation of revenue by the direct and indirect workers). Data collection methodologies and specific job categorizations differ between assessments, because the information for each sector was collected from different sources.
The Ecotech Institute used the Bureau of Labor Statistics definition of a green job to calculate the number of clean job openings in 2014. The organization found a 13 percent increase in clean job openings from 2013 to 2014, from 3.6 million clean job openings in 2013 to 3.8 million openings in 2014. The institute estimates that there were 1.2 million clean job openings in the first three months of 2015.