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Electric Trucks Are Just The Start. Congress, Let’s Get Rolling.

Electric pickup trucks are cool. But when it comes to building a cleaner economy and creating the jobs and other economic opportunities that come with it, so are heat pumps, Energy Star appliances and climate finance, the Biden administration showed this week. While up in Michigan the biggest game-changing electric vehicle since Tesla — the Ford F-150 Lightning — stole the […]

Achieving California’s Clean Energy Targets: Where The Rubber Meets The Road

WHAT Profound change is afoot in the quest to meet California’s ambitious decarbonization targets and our state’s electric grid is a critical lynchpin; delivering zero-carbon electricity to California citizens and businesses is critical as we work to power our industries, buildings, and transportation sector with clean electricity.  Realizing 100% clean energy and statewide carbon neutrality […]

How We Decarbonize California’s Buildings

California’s building sector is responsible for a quarter of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonizing our built environment presents a critical opportunity ripe for climate action. Over the last few years, state policymakers have made progress in tamping down building emission across California. And at the local level more than 40 cities and counties […]

E2: House Energy Bill Important Foundation for Climate; Stimulus for Clean Energy Still Needed

WASHINGTON – The U.S House is poised to pass the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act, which includes the potential for funding increases to important energy efficiency programs; solar energy development for low-income communities; research in energy storage and provisions to address environmental justice issues. It also includes a phase-out of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a greenhouse […]

Oregon’s Clean Energy Future: What Governor Brown’s Executive Order Means for Oregon Clean Businesses

On March 10, just before the COVID-19 crisis swept across the country, Oregon Governor Kate Brown made climate action history. By signing an ambitious and far-reaching executive order, Governor Brown positioned Oregon to reduce the emissions driving climate change from a broad range of sources across the Oregon economy while priming the state’s clean energy economy for […]

600+ Business Leaders Oppose Trump NEPA Proposal, Urge Withdrawal

More than 600 business leaders from across the country publicly stated their opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in a letter delivered to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today. The letter was signed by businesspeople including leaders of major companies, small business owners and […]

How City Innovation is Curbing Climate Change and Growing the Clean Energy Economy

Cities have always been at the forefront of creating good jobs and opportunities for businesses and good places to live for their residents. With the challenges of the climate crisis upon us, cities are now helping lead America with innovative policies to reduce carbon emissions, make buildings and transportation networks more efficient and expand opportunities […]

200+ Architects, Engineers, Contractors Urge Congress to Pass AIM Act

Statements from CEO of Chicago-based Whitney Architects and E2 Director of Federal Advocacy WASHINGTON (March 3, 2020) – As the Senate Energy Package (S. 2657) moves to the floor this week, more than  200 architects, engineers and contractors from across the country sent a letter to all senators urging them to include the Kennedy-Carper amendment […]

Letters: Trump administration proposal tells business to forget lessons of Deepwater Horizon

On January 10, the Trump administration announced it plans to roll back the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), excluding more projects from NEPA review and allowing project developers to write the environmental analysis. We know what that looks like. Deepwater Horizon was exempted from full environmental review under NEPA. As a result, the economic and […]

Clean Jobs North Carolina 2019

Top 10 in Jobs Across Clean Technologies

North Carolina is the Southeast’s leader in clean energy jobs. Not only does the Tar Heel state rank among the top 10 states in the country across clean energy categories such as solar energy, energy efficiency, and overall clean energy.

According to Clean Jobs North Carolina 2019 (downloadable PDF), the state’s clean energy jobs grew 3.5 percent last year – nearly double statewide employment growth (1.9%) —and now account for more than half of North Carolina’s entire energy sector workforce (212,172).  Clean vehicles led all sectors in growth, adding more than 1,000 jobs for a 19.5% growth rate.

Along with being a national pioneer in solar energy as the No 2. state for installed solar and No. 9 for jobs, North Carolina is fast becoming a powerhouse in energy efficiency as well with over 86,000 jobs – employing more workers in energy efficiency alone than 39 states do in all clean energy sectors.

All 100 counties in North Carolina—from Cherokee to Currituck—are home to residents who work in clean energy jobs, and 26 counties are home to at least 900 jobs. And while the metropolitan areas of Charlotte and Raleigh combine to make up the largest portion of the state’s clean jobs (37,700), its rural areas account for 25 percent of all the state’s jobs in renewable energy, efficiency, storage, and clean vehicles and fuels (29,000).

North Carolina Job Sector Toplines

• Energy Efficiency – 86,559 jobs
• Renewable Energy – 12,091 jobs
• Solar Energy – 8,912 jobs
• Clean Vehicles – 7,280 jobs
• Grid Modernization – 2,124 jobs
• Energy Storage – 1,692 jobs
• Wind Energy – 908 jobs
• ALL Clean Energy Sectors – 110,913 jobs

Other Highlights from 2018

• Clean energy jobs also now employ more than ten times more workers than the state’s entire fossil fuel industry (10,022)
• 80% of clean energy employers reported it was “very difficult” or “somewhat difficult” hiring qualified workers
• More than 4 out of every 5 clean energy workers are employed by businesses with fewer than 20 employees
• Construction (44.3%) and manufacturing (16.8%) make up the majority of clean energy jobs
• 3,468 North Carolinians now work in grid modernization (2,124) and energy storage (1,344)
• 11.4% of North Carolinians employed in clean energy are veterans – nearly double the percentage of veterans in the overall national workplace (6%)
• 11 of North Carolina’s congressional districts are home to at least 5,000 clean jobs
• 40 of the state’s 50 senate districts along with 39 house districts had over 1,000 clean energy jobs.
• 26 of North Carolina’s 100 counties employ at least 900 clean energy workers
• Mecklenburg led all counties in North Carolina with 20,142 jobs, followed by Wake (17,491) and Guilford (6,318) counties

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This report follows E2’s Clean Jobs America analysis which found the clean energy jobs account for nearly 3.3 million jobs across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Both reports expand on data from the U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) produced by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) in partnership with the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), using data collected and analyzed by the BW Research Partnership. E2 is a partner on the USEER, the fourth installment of the energy survey first released by the Department of Energy in 2016. Clean energy jobs have grown every year since the first report was released in 2016.

If you are looking for additional insight into E2’s Clean Jobs North Carolina 2019 or our other Clean Jobs America reports, visit e2.org/reports. You can also contact E2 Communications Director Michael Timberlake ([email protected]). An FAQ is also available here to answer any questions.

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OTHER CLEAN JOBS REPORTS

Clean Jobs North Carolina is only one in a series of state and industry reports produced by E2 and our partners.

• Clean Jobs America 2019 | Nearly 3.3 Million Clean Energy Jobs
• Clean Jobs Midwest 2019 |Region added more than 28,000 clean energy jobs in 2018
• Clean Jobs Nevada 2019 | 32,211 Clean Energy Jobs Across Nevada
• Clean Jobs Massachusetts 2019 | 117,669 Clean Energy Jobs Across Massachusetts
• Clean Jobs New York 2019 | 148,453 Clean Energy Jobs Across Empire State
• Clean Jobs Pennsylvania 2019 | 90,772 Clean Energy Jobs Across the Keystone State
• Clean Jobs New Jersey 2019 |51,852 Clean Energy Jobs Across New Jersey
• Energy Efficiency Jobs in America 2018 | 2.25 Million Americans Work in Energy Efficiency
• Clean Jobs Cities 2018 | America’s Top Cities for Clean Energy Jobs
• Clean Jobs California 2018 | Over 500K Californians Working in Clean Energy
• Clean Jobs Oregon 2018 |  55,179 Clean Energy Jobs Across Oregon
• Clean Jobs Washington 2018 | 82,859 clean energy jobs across Washington State
• Clean Jobs Colorado 2018 | 57,591 Clean Energy Jobs Across Colorado

Southern California Building Decarbonization Event

Building Decarbonization California’s Climate Change Mitigation FrontierWithCalifornia State Senator, Henry Stern City of Los Angeles Chief Sustainability Officer, Lauren Faber O’Connor City of Santa Monica Chief Sustainability Officer, Dean Kubani NRDC Senior Scientist, Pierre Delforge WHEN Monday, December 10, 2018 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, with program beginning at 6:30PM WHERE TIATO 2700 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404 […]