Summary
There are over 13,453 clean energy jobs in New Mexico. The clean energy workforce added 770 new workers in 2023, growing 6.1 percent and adding jobs at a much faster rate than the state’s overall employment, which grew 2.3 percent. The bulk of the workforce were in construction and professional services industries. In 2023, clean energy accounted for 19.4 percent of all energy jobs in New Mexico. The top three counties for most clean energy jobs are Bernalillo County (6,606 jobs), Santa Fe County (1,149 jobs), and Dona Ana County (1,052 jobs).
- RENEWABLE GENERATION: Renewable generation grew 3.8 percent in 2023, bringing New Mexico’s renewable generation workforce to 4,904 individuals. Solar and wind account for the majority of the sector’s workforce with 3,403 jobs and 1,192 jobs respectively.
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Energy efficiency is New Mexico’s largest clean energy sector with 6,486 workers. The sector grew 7.0 percent in 2023, the fastest growing energy efficiency workforce in the nation.
- STORAGE AND GRID MODERNIZATION: Jobs in battery, storage, and grid modernization grew 6.0 percent, with a workforce totaling 820 in 2023.
- CLEAN VEHICLES: The clean vehicles sector grew 9.5 percent in 2023 to employ a total of 1,073 workers making the sector the second fastest growing clean energy sector in the state behind clean fuels. The sector grew much faster than the gas/diesel vehicles sector in New Mexico, which grew 1 percent in 2023.
- CLEAN FUELS: New Mexico’s clean fuels workforce makes up the smallest clean energy sector in the state with 171 total jobs. Clean fuel jobs grew at a rate of 16.5 percent from 2022 to 2023.
Previous Reports
Clean Jobs New Mexico 2024 is the 4th clean energy jobs report for New Mexico from E2. Previous reports can be accessed in the below links.
Background
This is the fourth annual Clean Jobs New Mexico 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.
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