{"id":39733,"date":"2016-01-20T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/economy\/the-solar-foundations-national-solar-jobs-census-2015-finds-that-u-s-solar-workforce-grew-by-more-than-20-for-the-third-consecutive-year.html"},"modified":"2016-01-20T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:47:09","slug":"the-solar-foundations-national-solar-jobs-census-2015-finds-that-u-s-solar-workforce-grew-by-more-than-20-for-the-third-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/economy\/the-solar-foundations-national-solar-jobs-census-2015-finds-that-u-s-solar-workforce-grew-by-more-than-20-for-the-third-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Foundation\u2019s National Solar Jobs Census 2015 Finds that U.S. Solar Workforce Grew by More Than 20% for the Third Consecutive Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
More than 35,000 solar jobs added in 2015, bringing U.S. solar workforce total to nearly 209,000; an increase of 123% since 2010.<\/pre>\n
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The Solar Foundation (TSF), an independent nonprofit solar research and education organization, today released its sixth annual National Solar Jobs Census<\/a><\/em>. The new Census 2015<\/em> found that the U.S. solar industry employed 208,859<\/strong>  Americans in 2015, a figure that includes the addition of 35,052 solar  workers over the previous year, representing 20.2 percent growth in  solar industry employment in the 12 months preceding November 2015.  Solar employment grew nearly 12 times faster than the national  employment growth rate of 1.7 percent during the same period. <\/p>\n
“The solar industry has once again proven to be a powerful engine of economic growth and job creation,” said Andrea Luecke, President and Executive Director of The Solar Foundation<\/strong>. “Employment in solar has grown an extraordinary 123 percent since 2010, adding approximately 115,000 well-paying jobs. Our Census<\/em>  findings show that one out of every 83 new jobs created in the U.S.  over the last 12 months was in the solar industry – 1.2% of all new  jobs. The Solar Foundation is proud to play a vital role in delivering  comprehensive solar jobs information to key decision makers about the  technology’s tremendous contributions to the U.S. economy.”<\/p>\n
The solar workforce is larger than some well-established fossil fuel  generation sectors, such as the oil and gas extraction industry, which  shed 13,800 jobs in 2015 and now employs 187,200 people. The oil and gas  pipeline construction industry, which employs 129,500 workers, lost  9,500 jobs (U.S. BLS) during the same period. The solar industry is  already three times larger than the coal-mining industry, which employs  67,929 people (JobsEQ 2015Q3). Solar employers surveyed expect to add  more than 30,000 jobs over the next 12 months. The expected increase of  14.7% would bring the count of U.S. solar workers to 239,625 by the end  of 2016.<\/p>\n
Respected U.S. leaders and companies lauded the National Solar Job Census 2015<\/em> findings.<\/p>\n
“The U.S. solar power industry continues to grow and create jobs,  providing further evidence that promoting economic growth and fighting  climate change can go hand-in-hand. The Solar Jobs Census<\/em> helps  fuel this progress by offering policymakers and investors the clean  energy data they need to make informed decisions,” said Michael  R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P., philanthropist, United Nations  Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Cities & Climate Change, and  three-term Mayor of New York City<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
“The continued growth and vitality of the solar industry is welcome  news, especially after world leaders convened in Paris and signed an  historic agreement recognizing the importance of climate change and of  renewable energy as a way to help address it,” said Rick Needham, Director, Energy and Sustainability at Google<\/strong>.  “As the largest corporate procurer of renewable power in the world and  one of the largest corporate investors in both utility scale and  residential solar, we’re doing our part to support solar not only  because it provides clean, renewable power but also because it makes  great business sense. And with the launch and recent expansion of our  Project Sunroof, we’re helping our users explore whether solar makes  sense for them and provides a pathway for cleaner power, economic  savings, and more jobs.”<\/p>\n
“Solar is surging. Renewable energy deployment is on track to  transform our world, helping to lessen our reliance on coal and other  polluting fossil fuels,” said Board of Los Angeles County Chair and former U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis<\/strong>.  “Solar’s growth will continue to be robust in coming years. With wider  solar adoption, thousands more high-quality jobs will be added to the  economy that help propel us forward and advance our economic and  environmental goals.”<\/p>\n
“As the Census<\/em> underscores, solar is providing a tremendous  boost to our economy while meeting public demand for clean, affordable  energy,” said Andrew Birch, CEO of Sungevity<\/strong>, the  largest privately held solar installer in the U.S. “We’re extremely  proud to be one the fastest growing solar companies in the U.S. – and  part of an industry that’s creating hundreds of thousands of  high-quality jobs.”<\/p>\n
“Americans want good-paying jobs, and solar jobs are growing 12 times faster than the rest of the economy,” said former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm<\/strong>.  “Our citizens are making and installing those solar panels, and with  the right policies, the U.S. can create hundreds of thousands more solar  jobs here at home. What more needs to be said?”<\/p>\n
The Solar Foundation and BW Research Partnership conducted the National Solar Jobs Census 2015<\/em>. The report includes data collected from more than 19,000 U.S. businesses. The results from the Census<\/em>  are based on rigorous survey efforts that include 287,962 telephone  calls and over 44,220 emails to known and potential energy  establishments across the United States, resulting in a total of 2,350  full completions for solar establishments in the U.S. The sampling rigor  in the known and unknown universes provides a margin of error for  establishment counts at ±0.85% and employment at ±1.99% at a 95%  confidence interval.<\/p>\n
“Census 2015<\/em> shows that solar company growth has been  remarkably consistent over the last five years, despite an uneven jobs  recovery in the U.S. over the same period,” said Philip Jordan, Vice President at BW Research Partnership<\/strong>.  “Indications point to this sustained, upward trajectory continuing  apace in the months and years ahead as the U.S. transitions to a clean  energy economy.”<\/p>\n
The full National Solar Jobs Census 2015<\/em> <\/strong>report is now available at http:\/\/TSFcensus.org<\/a>.
 A new and highly interactive map featuring Solar Jobs Census<\/em> data broken out by state, county, and legislative districts will be available at http:\/\/SolarStates.org<\/a> in mid-February.<\/p>\n
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The Solar Foundation (TSF) 2016<\/a><\/p>\n
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