Barracuda2020 wrote:
A more detailed job analysis is provided by AltEnergyStocks, which finds 5.3 jobs per $1 million for fossil fuel investments, and a bit over three times this — 16.7 jobs per $1 million for clean energy (energy efficiency and renewable energy). Importantly, this analysis also documents the substantially higher quality and higher pay nature of clean energy jobs relative to fossil fuel employment.
U.S. state level energy employment impact analysis also finds large employment benefits from clean energy investments. For example, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, in a 2015 review (PDF) of state-level energy efficiency programs, found that an energy efficiency investment of $1 million creates 66 job years (this includes both direct and indirect jobs).
Clean energy jobs are also more distributed and are largely higher quality jobs.
International studies also find large differences in labor intensity of clean energy relative to fossil fuels. For example, a 2014 U.K. Energy Research Center report, "Low Carbon Jobs," found that the average employment creation for fossil fuels is 0.14 jobs per Gigawatthour (coal 0.15, gas 0.12), that the average across all renewable energy is 0.65 jobs/GWh, and that the average across both renewable energy and energy efficiency is 0.80 jobs/GWh.
This broad government study finds that renewable energy creates 4.3 times as many jobs as coal and 5.4 times as many as natural gas. It also finds that job creation from clean energy generally (renewables plus energy efficiency) is 5.3 times greater than from coal and 6.7 times greater than from natural gas.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-many-jobs-does-clean-energy-createA more detailed job analysis is provided by AltEne... (
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A good article that suggests better paying jobs in the alternative energies... It also suggests;
“What would a continued transition from fossil fuels — particularly coal — to renewable energy and energy efficiency mean for U.S. employment? The answer depends largely on how many jobs each sector creates — that is what is the employment intensity of each energy sector? The electricity sector involves millions of jobs, and arguments for one form of energy versus another usually involves claims about how many jobs investments in each form of energy will create...
I agree with this, logical to assume demand in each field would increase as coal was phased out.. The electricity sector not so much, anytime soon, especially given what we already see in its cost to serviceability and what energy is used, cost wise, alone since the demand is so great on a world wide level...
As you know the three major categories of energy for electricity generation are fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), nuclear energy, and renewable energy sources. Most electricity is generated with steam turbines using fossil fuels, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and solar thermal energy..
”There will continue to be hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in energy, so it matters a great deal if one form of energy creates a lot more jobs than another. There are confusing and contradictory claims about job creation from different forms of energy.” I agree ...
Your article also suggests;
Energy-related employment is a slippery subject — are jobs permanent or just for one year (called job years)? Some job creation estimates count just direct jobs while others include indirect and induced jobs, so to be meaningful, a job creation claim must be an apples-to-apples comparison. I agree with that as well..What are temporary jobs to permanent other than the researchers? how often does the pendulum swing to working and not working in these fields?? It seems viable but even the article suggests its best guess scenario with a career path just as shaky...?? Times are changing and all renewable alternatives are good, thats for sure..
Solar would be a good measure in viability of jobs, pay ranges etc. Unfortunately just as solar started to flourish, China pledged to become number 1 in distribution and did so, really hurting that industry here, as we know.. Although they have picked up some its extremely volatile which goes back to what your article suggested relative to the confusing and contradictory claims about job creation from different forms of energy.
Not to mention its cost in comparison to that discussed earlier.. One reason solar power remains (relatively) expensive is that it’s so labor intensive requiring more manpower per megawatt hour than any other power source. The natural gas industry employs as many people as solar but provides nearly 50 times as much energy....
I’d be curious to see what alternative energies employ now, since much has changed since the 2014/2015 data used in the article..
I found this article that you may find interesting too..Its from a timespan of 2000 to 2018 in all categories..
Solar and wind power use has grown at a rapid rate over the past decade or so, but as of 2018 those sources accounted for less than 4% of all the energy used in the U.S. (That’s the most recent full year for which data is available.) As far back as we have data, most of the energy used in the U.S. has come from coal, oil and natural gas. In 2018, those “fossil fuels” fed about 80% of the nation’s energy demand, down slightly from 84% a decade earlier. Although coal use has declined in recent years, natural gas use has soared, while oil’s share of the nation’s energy tab has fluctuated between 35% and 40%. What is the job market with such limitations in results?? Or sustainability?? All interesting...
This report is based primarily on data compiled by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Department of Energy. We also refer to a Pew Research Center survey of Americans’ views on climate and energy policy. That survey interviewed 3,627 members of the Center’s American Trends Panel, an online survey panel that is recruited though national, random sampling of residential addresses, in October 2019. Here are the questions asked in that survey, along with responses, and here is the survey’s methodology.
The charts and graphs very good..
Ironically as for renewable energies other than solar which showed growth has come from the solar and wind sectors, which rose by 24.5 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017.But there’s nothing else...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/15/renewable-energy-is-growing-fast-in-the-u-s-but-fossil-fuels-still-dominate/%3famp=1