Clean energy employment accounted for more than half of all jobs added in the US energy sector last year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
In total, the energy sector added 250,000 new jobs in 2023, growing the energy workforce to 8.35 million, the annual US Energy and Employment report stated. 142,000 of those jobs were in clean energy.
“We are doing big things in American energy, and that's translating in a big way into the jobs that are being created all across the country,” national climate adviser Ali Zaidi said in a call with reporters.
Electric power generation jobs, including wind and solar energy, saw the biggest gains, expanding 4% from the previous year. Solar alone added more than 18,400 jobs, a 5.3% gain year over year.
Onshore oil and gas activities posted the largest gains within the fuels sector, adding 9,028 jobs, while mining and extraction jobs remained flat with a growth rate of 0.4%.
The report outlined job gains in all 50 states, spurred in part by incentives in the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and President Biden's signature climate law enacted in 2022, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden administration officials touted the incentives as drivers of the expansion in renewable energy.
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