Green Energy Jobs Growing Fast

In what is hopefully not too little, too late, our green energy future is getting closer and closer each day. And now we have some other great news about the explosion of green energy jobs. The International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, reports that green energy employment around the world grew by 5% in 2015, employing about 8 million workers. And in the United States, over 750,000 people were employed in the green energy sector compared with only about 250,000 in the more heavily subsidized oil, gas, and coal sectors. And as the price of renewables continues to drop, the outlook for green jobs looks far rosier than the shrinking fossil fuel sector of our economy. And, in the end, that will be good for all of us.