{"id":290,"date":"2016-01-12T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=290"},"modified":"2016-01-18T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:39:29","slug":"solar-jobs-now-outnumber-oil-jobs-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/solar-jobs-now-outnumber-oil-jobs-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar jobs now outnumber oil jobs in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Foundation recently published the <em>National Solar Jobs Census 2015<\/em>, its yearly update of current employment, job trends, and growth projections in the U.S. solar industry.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis revealed that the U.S. solar industry is adding workers at a remarkable clip &#8212; solar accounts for 1.2 percent of all jobs created in the U.S. in the past year and solar job growth is occurring 12 times faster than in the economy overall.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">solar employment is UP &gt;20% for the 3rd consecutive year! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIDhZhQAnS\">https:\/\/t.co\/xIDhZhQAnS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQani7rUCO\">pic.twitter.com\/wQani7rUCO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Solar Foundation (@solarfound) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solarfound\/status\/686918181898817536\">January 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Big growth for solar employment, now and in the immediate future<\/h2>\n<p>According to The Solar Foundation, the solar industry employs 208,859 solar workers as of November 2015, which year-over-year increase of 20.2 percent from November 2014. In the next 12 months, total solar employment is projected to reach 239,625.<\/p>\n<p>Other key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The solar installation sector is the largest in solar employment, accounting for 119,931 of the 208,859 jobs.<\/li>\n<li>The solar installation sector grew 24 percent year over year and by 173 percent from 2010.<\/li>\n<li>One of 83 new jobs created in the U.S. since The Solar Foundation&#8217;s 2014 Census was a solar industry job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Solar jobs > oil jobs<\/h2>\n<p>With the overall number of U.S. solar jobs now hitting nearly 209,000, the solar industry now trumps the oil industry, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/US-Solar-Industry-Provides-More-Jobs-Than-Oil-and-Gas-Extraction\" title=\"oil industry accounted for just 185,000 jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>oil industry accounted for just 185,000 jobs<\/strong><\/a> as of December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The solar industry added approximately 35,000 jobs in 2015, while employment in the oil industry actually dropped &#8212; from a high of 199,000 jobs in January 2015 to 183,000 that following December.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US Solar Industry Provides More Jobs Than Oil and Gas Extraction <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XiWz80Uvw0\">https:\/\/t.co\/XiWz80Uvw0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greentech Media (@greentechmedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greentechmedia\/status\/686854576855740416\">January 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesolarfoundation.org\/national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Solar Foundation<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Solar_install_(6836811633).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by Oregon Department of Transportation \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Foundation recently published the <em>National Solar Jobs Census 2015<\/em>, its yearly update of current employment, job trends, and growth projections in the U.S. solar industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,51,6,52],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-jobs","tag-solar-power","tag-united-states"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}