Source: Jason Parker, WRAL TECHWIRE, 4/19/21


More than 25,500 clean energy jobs are based in rural regions of North Carolina, representing 25.6 percent of all jobs in this section of the state’s economy, and that’s more rural clean energy jobs than in any other state in the country, a new report from E2 found. Statewide, 99,670 people are employed in the clean energy sector, putting North Carolina ninth out of all 50 states, trailing Ohio by a few thousand jobs.  The lion’s share of employment in the state comes in the energy efficiency sector, with more than 76,000 jobs.  

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