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Clean Energy Employment Initial Impacts from the COVID-19 Economic Crisis, September 2020

Clean Energy Employment Initial Impacts from the COVID-19 Economic Crisis, September 2020

Full Title: Clean Energy Employment Initial Impacts from the COVID-19 Economic Crisis, September 2020
Author(s): Philip Jordan
Publisher(s): E2, E4TheFuture, and ACORE
Publication Date: October 7, 2020
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Description (excerpt):

The clean energy industry expected to add over 175,000 jobs this year, but enters the final months of 2020 down 477,862 jobs as a stalled recovery plagues the sector. Clean energy saw 12,500 jobs added in September, leaving almost 14% of its pre-COVID-19 workforce unemployed, according to the latest analysis of federal unemployment filings prepared for E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), E4TheFuture and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) by BW Research Partnership.

Despite growing two times faster than the overall economy since 2017, the clean energy sector has been particularly slow to rebound compared to the nation’s overall jobs recovery. Jobs in clean energy grew by less than half a percent for the third time in four months and just one out of every five clean energy jobs lost between March and May has come back, according to the monthly report. The slow growth is consistent nationwide; no state saw more than a 0.7% increase in employment in September, with 23 states and the District of Columbia adding fewer than 100 jobs each.

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