New Energy Jobs Around The World

The State Of Global Renewable Energy Employment…

Niall McCarthy, July 23, 2019 (Forbes)

“In 2018, 11 million people were directly and indirectly employed in the renewable energy sector around the world, an increase on 10.3 million the year before…Solar photovoltaic accounted for 3.6 million jobs, 3.2 million were in bioenergy, 1.2 million were in wind and the rest were distributed across several industries such as solar heating and biogas…China is the clear leader in renewable energy employment with 4.1 million jobs in 2018, 39% of the global total…[but its job count dropped in 2017] due to a fall in solar PV employment amid a suspension of subsidies and lower domestic sales…

…[Brazil’s 1.1 million renewables jobs made it second, and its wind and solar sectors are expected to grow. Its 832,000 people employed in the biofuels sector made it] the world's largest biofuels employer…Despite the Trump administration's coal-friendly policies, employment in the U.S. renewable energy sector rose from around 786,000 in 2017 to 855,000 in 2018, with [311,000 in biofuels, 242,000 in solar, and 114,000 in wind. But uncertainty around U.S. tariff policy and state-level changes] are having an impact on some parts of the renewables sector…[and] solar recorded its second consecutive year of job losses…India is making dramatic progress and its renewable energy jobs total skyrocketed from 432,000 to 719,000 between 2017 and 2018.” click here for more

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