(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) applauded the clean energy jobs growth reported in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s 2023 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), a comprehensive study designed to track and understand employment trends across the energy sector. The 2023 USEER, which Shaheen helped establish, shows that the energy workforce added almost 300,000 jobs (+3.8% growth) in 2022. The exciting data for 2022 is a preview of what to expect in 2023, which will include more of the impact from historic pieces of legislation like the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA) that Shaheen helped negotiate, as well as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
According to the new report, New Hampshire had 30,156 energy workers statewide in 2022. Of these energy jobs, 5,842 were in electric power generation; 1,367 in fuels; 3,448 in transmission, distribution, and storage; 11,299 in energy efficiency; and 8,199 in motor vehicles. From 2021 to 2022, energy jobs in the state increased 648 jobs, or 2.2%. The energy sector in New Hampshire represented 4.5% of total state employment.
“The clean energy sector plays a critical role in combating the ongoing climate crisis as well as promoting job creation and economic development in New Hampshire and across the nation,” said Senator Shaheen, whose long-standing efforts to recommit the administration to collecting data and publishing this annual report help guide policy on energy and workforce development....
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