Summary
New Mexico’s clean energy workforce added 613 new workers in 2024, growing 4.6 percent and adding jobs at a much faster rate than the rest of the state’s overall employment, which grew 0.3 percent. At the end of 2024, there were 14,081 clean energy jobs in New Mexico. The bulk of the workforce were in the construction and professional services industries. In 2024, clean energy employed about half the number of workers as fossil fuels (30,504) in the state. Roosevelt (44.7 percent) county made the top 100 list for fastest clean energy job growth in the nation.
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. As energy demand grows and the costs of climate change mount, New Mexico’s clean energy economy is positioned to play an important role in shaping the state’s economic future.
Previous Reports
Clean Jobs New Mexico 2024 is the 5th clean energy jobs report for New Mexico from E2. Previous reports can be accessed in the below links.
Background
This is the fifth 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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