Summary
California’s clean energy workforce added nearly 7,300 new workers in 2024, adding jobs more than three times faster than the rest of the state’s economy, which grew just 0.4 percent. The state leads the U.S. in total clean energy jobs, with 552,300 workers employed across clean energy technologies—and nearly twice as many as the second ranked state (Texas). There are jobs across solar, wind, energy efficiency, clean vehicles, batteries and other sectors. The bulk of the workforce are employed in the construction and professional services industries. In 2024, clean energy employed about seven times more workers than the fossil fuel industry (80,600) in the state.
The data in this report predates the July 2025 passage of the federal “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which is expected to slow clean energy job growth nationwide. Still, the job numbers point to a resilient and essential clean energy workforce. Increased energy demand and the clean energy-related policies the state enacted during the 2025 legislative session position California’s clean energy economy to play an important role in shaping the state’s economic future.
Previous Reports
Clean Jobs California is the 6th clean energy jobs report for California from E2. For additional insight into E2’s clean energy jobs numbers, including interactive state and county data for all of the U.S., visit cleanjobsamerica.e2.org.
Previous California-specific reports can be accessed in the below links.
Background
This is the sixth Clean Jobs California 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.
For additional insight on clean energy’s economic impact, visit e2.org/reports/ to access E2’s full slate of economic reports on the clean energy sector and related industries,