Summary
Pennsylvania’s clean energy workforce added 4,436 workers in 2023. With a 4.6 percent growth rate, clean energy is adding jobs much more quickly than overall employment in the state, which grew 1.2 percent. Pennsylvania’s clean energy workforce ranked 10th nationally in 2023, with 100,704 jobs.1 Most of the workforce was in the construction and manufacturing industries. Four Pennsylvania counties made the list of the Top 100 counties for clean energy jobs in the entire U.S.: Allegheny (13,215), Montgomery (9,722), Philadelphia (9,313), and Lehigh (8,103).
- RENEWABLE GENERATION: Renewable generation grew 5.7 percent in 2023, bringing Pennsylvania’s renewable generation workforce to 12,014—13th-largest nationally. Solar and wind account for the majority of the sector’s workforce with 6,731 jobs and 3,255 jobs respectively.
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Energy efficiency is Pennsylvania’s largest clean energy sector with 72,913 workers. The sector grew 4.2 percent in 2023, the nation’s 14th-fastest growing energy efficiency workforce.
- STORAGE AND GRID MODERNIZATION: Jobs in battery, storage, and grid modernization grew 5 percent in 2023, making the sector the third-fastest growing clean energy sector in the state. Pennsylvania’s storage and grid modernization workforce totaled 4,200 in 2023—No. 11 nationally.
- CLEAN VEHICLES: The fastest-growing workforce in Pennsylvania’s clean energy industry is in clean vehicles. Clean vehicles jobs grew 6.4 percent in 2023 and the sector now employs 10,141 workers. The sector grew much faster than Pennsylvania’s gas/diesel vehicles, which inched up 1 percent in 2023.
- CLEAN FUELS: Pennsylvania’s clean fuels workforce is the state’s smallest clean energy sector, with 1,436 jobs. Despite being a small clean energy sector, clean fuels jobs grew at a healthy 4.4 percent rate.
Previous Reports
Clean Jobs Pennsylvania 2024 is the 9th clean energy jobs report for Pennsylvania from E2. Previous reports can be accessed in the below links.
Background
This is the ninth annual Clean Jobs Pennsylvania report produced by E2 based on analysis of the USEER, which was first released by the DOE in 2016. E2 was an original proponent of the DOE producing the USEER and was a partner on the reports produced by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) and National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) after the Trump administration decided to not produce it in 2017.
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