The numbers come from our annual United States Energy & Employment Report.
The report is a comprehensive summary of workforce, industry and hiring information from energy technology groups at the state and state levels to better track employment in key energy sectors. This data enables us to better understand the growth and trends in the energy industry.
This year we have a clear picture of the positive impact of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.
Here are the six key findings from the report:
1. Jobs in the energy sector are increasing 📈
- The energy sector has created almost 300,000 jobs, growing from a total of 7.8 million energy sector jobs in 2021 to over 8.1 million in 2022.
- Although the energy sector was severely affected by COVID-19 and its economic fallout, as of 2022, 71% of the jobs lost in 2020 have been recovered.
2. The energy industry is growing across technologies ️ ⚡
- Technologies with double-digit growth include offshore wind power (20%), other grid upgrades (12%), hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (25%), natural gas vehicles (14%) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (10%).
- Employers of all technologies are optimistic about growth in 2022-2023.
️3. Clean energy technologies are making great strides ☀️
- Clean power technologies such as solar and wind accounted for almost 87% of net new jobs in power generation, creating 22,279 jobs (+3.6%).
- Clean energy jobs increased in all states, growing 3.9% nationwide from 2021-2022, outpacing overall US employment, which grew 3.1%.
4. A cleaner way of driving is in our future 🚗 ⚡️
- Battery electric vehicles have added 28,366 jobs (+27%) from 2021 to 2022, representing the fastest increase of any energy technology.
- Clean vehicles accounted for 59% of all net new jobs in the automotive sector.
5. The future of the energy industry is for everyone 🙋♀️🙋
- The number of women working in the energy sector increased by 150,000 (+7.8%), meaning that more than half of the new jobs created in 2022 were occupied by women.
- A quarter of the workforce in the energy sector are non-white workers, which is slightly higher than their share of the total workforce (23%).
- Veterans made up 9% of the US energy workforce, more than their share in the overall US economy (5%).
6. Energy employers benefit from American unions 💪
- Unionized employers were more than twice as likely to offer or request a diversity and/or inclusion training program to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace as non-union employers (46% and 22%, respectively). Policies, policies, or programs to increase the number of women, ethnic and racial minorities, and LGBTQ+ employees. In fact, the most unionized technology sector (transmission, distribution and storage) had the highest proportion of non-white energy workers in the USEER.
- The percentage of workers represented by a union or covered by a project labor or collective agreement in the energy workforce (11%) was over 1.5 times the average in the private sector (7%).
- In 2022, unionized employers reported less difficulty finding labor than non-union employers. 48% of non-unionized companies said it was “very difficult” to find workers, while only 29% of unionized companies reported difficulties. This gap was even more pronounced in the construction sector.
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The Future of Energy in America
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