Over 50,000 Missourians now work in clean energy jobs. That growing figure currently ranks the state a middling 22nd in number of clean energy jobs and 25th as a percentage of total employment. But renewable energy advocates in the state are particularly encouraged by Missouri’s recent surge in wind power production and new legislation that is expected to speed the state’s transition to renewables…
According to E2, a nonpartisan business association that advocates for business- and environment-friendly policies, median hourly wages for clean energy jobs are 25% higher than the national median wage. Clean energy also employs almost three times as many people as fossil fuel extraction and generation and pays higher wages.