Summary
Georgia’s clean energy workforce added 3,809 new workers in 2023, growing 4.9 percent and adding jobs at a much faster rate than the state’s overall employment, which grew 1.3 percent. Georgia had the 15th-largest clean energy workforce for 2023 among all 50 states, with 82,163 clean energy jobs in total. The bulk of the workforce were in construction and manufacturing industries. In 2023, clean energy accounted for over 9 times more jobs than fossil fuels in Georgia. Two Georgia counties made the top 75 list for most clean energy jobs by county in the nation: Fulton County (13,869 jobs) and Henry County (9,206 jobs).
- RENEWABLE GENERATION: Renewable generation grew 6.3 percent in 2023, bringing Georgia’s renewable generation workforce to 11,162 individuals—the 15th largest in the country. Solar and wind account for the majority of the sector’s workforce, with 8,194 jobs and 1,433 jobs respectively.
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Energy efficiency is Georgia’s largest clean energy sector, with 58,067 workers. The sector grew 4.4 percent in 2023, tied for the 10th-fastest growing energy efficiency workforce in the nation.
- STORAGE AND GRID MODERNIZATION: Jobs in battery, storage, and grid modernization grew 5.1 percent in 2023, bringing Georgia’s storage and grid modernization workforce to 4,593 individuals—the 9th largest in the nation. Clean storage made up the majority of the sector’s workforce, with 2,035 jobs.
- CLEAN VEHICLES: The clean vehicles sector was the third-fastest growing workforce in Georgia’s clean energy industry, growing 5.6 percent in 2023 to employ a total of 7,821 workers.
- CLEAN FUELS: Georgia’s clean fuels workforce makes up the smallest clean energy sector in the state with 519 total jobs. Despite being the smallest clean energy sector in Georgia, jobs in clean fuels grew at a rate of 9.1 percent, the strongest growth among all of Georgia’s clean energy sectors.
Previous Reports
Clean Jobs Georgia 2024 is the 2nd clean energy jobs report for Georgia from E2. The 2023 report can be accessed below.
Background
This is the second annual Clean Jobs Georgia 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 into E2’s Clean Jobs Georgia or our other annual clean energy economic reports, visit e2.org/reports.