{"id":3501,"date":"2020-09-29T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","slug":"clean-energy-employed-94000-in-pa-before-pandemic-50k-more-than-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/clean-energy-employed-94000-in-pa-before-pandemic-50k-more-than-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Energy Employed 94,000 in PA Before Pandemic, 50K More than Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E2<\/a> Report, September 23, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pittsburgh (September 23, 2020) \u2013<\/strong> Led by strong growth in solar energy, grid modernization, and energy efficiency, Pennsylvania added more than 3,000 net new clean energy jobs in 2019, continuing a years-long trend that made the state one of the fastest-growing for clean energy before the COVID-19 economic crisis, according <a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/reports\/clean-jobs-pennsylvania-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to a new report<\/a> from E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), the Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance (KEEA), the Green Building Alliance (GBA), Green Building United, the Suitable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and Sustainable Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>93,900 Pennsylvanians worked in solar, wind, energy efficiency, grid modernization, energy storage, clean vehicles and other clean energy occupations at the end of 2019, according to the new report <a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/reports\/clean-jobs-pennsylvania-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Clean Jobs Pennsylvania 2020<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> That was up from 90,800 in 2018 and 85,600 in 2017, a rate (9.6%) nearly five times faster than statewide employment growth during that time (2.0%) and three times faster than fossil fuel. Employment in renewable energy industries grew 12% from 2017 to 2019 as jobs in natural gas declined 10% according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenergyjobs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>2020 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER)<\/em><\/a>. Nationwide, Pennsylvania had the seventh fastest-growing clean energy sector from 2017-2019.<\/p>\n<p>Full Press Release <a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/releases\/report-clean-energy-employed-94000-in-pa-before-pandemic-50k-more-than-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>o PA was home to 11th most clean energy jobs before COVID-19<br \/>\no Jobs in renewables grew 11.8% from 2017-2019 as natural gas employment dropped 10%<br \/>\no 18,000 jobs lost since COVID-19, wiping out 19% of industry\u2019s workforce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleanpower","category-green-jobs","category-pa_pgh_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}