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2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report

Published: Sep 05 2017
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The 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) finds that the Traditional Energy and Energy Efficiency sectors today employ approximately 6.4 million Americans. These sectors increased in 2016 by just under 5 percent, adding over 300,000 net new jobs, roughly 14% of all those created in the country.

The 2017 USEER analyzes four sectors of the U.S. economy. The first two of those sectors make up the Traditional Energy sector:

  • Electric Power Generation and Fuels
  • Transmission, Distribution and Storage 
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Motor Vehicles

Electric Power Generation and Fuels technologies directly employ more than 1.9 million workers. In 2016, 55 percent, or 1.1 million, of these employees worked in traditional coal, oil, and gas, while almost 800,000 workers were employed in low carbon emission generation technologies, including renewables, nuclear, and advanced/low emission natural gas.

Read more and download the full report at https://energy.gov/downloads/2017-us-energy-and-employment-report.

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