The annual Clean Jobs America report by Environmental Entrepreneurs – or E2 – said the bulk of the 61,583 clean-energy jobs in the Arizona were in energy-efficiency fields, like efficient lighting, heating and insulation. But Arizona also had almost 12,000 jobs in renewable energy industries and more than 4,000 in clean vehicles.
E2’s Communications Director Michael Timberlake said the U.S. as a whole lost more than 600,000 clean-energy jobs in the depths of the pandemic, but had regained about half the lost jobs by the end of 2020, for a total of just over 3 million. By 2022, the E2 report said, the number had climbed back above 3.3 million – just short of the 3.4 million recorded in 2019.