A
survey has revealed the power of the advanced energy sector, including solar, to drive
economic recovery.
According
to the results of a survey of more than 2,000 U.S. businesses by the BW Research Partnership, California leads
the way in advanced energy (AE) employment in the country and the 5% rise in AE
job numbers seen in the state this year was more than double the overall rise in
employment in the state, at 2.2% and significantly outpaced the national figure
for new job creation, of 1.6%.
The
figures, revealed by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute yesterday, show that
of the 431,800 people employed in AE in California this year, almost 73,000 were employed by
the solar industry, as defined by
workers spending more than half their time working on solar.
Energy
efficiency
By
far the biggest contributor to the sector were the more than 300,000 employees
working on building energy
efficiency in the state.
With
around half of the 43,700 AE businesses in California intending to recruit next
year, employee numbers are set to rise by 17% in the next 12 months with 70,000
new positions taking the number of people employed in AE to more than
500,000.
The
figures show more people are employed in AE in California than in movies,
television and radio; mining and quarrying; the semiconductor industry; or
aerospace.
The
survey placed California top of the pile in the U.S. for AE employee numbers and
joint second – alongside Massachusetts – for the largest percentage of total
employees, at 2.4%. Only Vermont, with
4.3% of its workforce employed in AE bettered California which, with an
estimated population of more than 37 million, dwarfs the number of residents in
Massachusetts – 6.6m – and Vermont – 626,000.
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