Report: China Now Has 9 Times as Many Solar Jobs as the US
The renewable energy industry continues to boom, creating an additional 500,000 new jobs globally in 2017, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
With the countries across the globe gradually moving towards clean energy in sync with their goals under the Paris Agreement on climate change, jobs in the renewable energy sector globally crossed 10 million mark in 2017.
While the total number of United States solar jobs dropped by about 10,000 last year to 250,000, the first decline in seven years, China soared ahead.
However, work in the industry remains highly concentrated in a number of key markets: six countries contributed more than 70 percent of the total jobs. The number of renewable energy jobs in Asia has been steadily increasing over the last few years - increasing from 3.5 million in 2015, 3.6 million in 2016, to sit at 3.8 million in 2017.
The solar photovoltaic sector was the largest employer in the renewable energy industry past year, employing 3.4 million people globally.
Two thirds of those jobs (2.2 million) are in China, which saw a huge increase in solar employment of more than 200,000 in 2018.
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IRENA believes this latest data supports its analysis that the global energy market is on course to create 28 million jobs in renewables by 2050. But, he added, the economic, social and environmental benefits of renewable energy are most evident "in countries where attractive policies exist".
Meanwhile, U.S. solar jobs dropped by 10,000 previous year to 250,000, thanks in large part to the market uncertainty created by President Trump's decision to slap tariffs on imported solar panels. Overall, the United Kingdom ranks fifth in the world for wind-related jobs. While wind jobs are found in a relatively small number of countries, it explained, the degree of concentration is lower than in the solar PV sector.
Jobs in the wind energy sector fell slightly past year to 1.15 million worldwide, with China accounting for around 44% of global employment, followed by Europe and North America, with 30% and 10% respectively.
Chile has 4.9 GW of installed renewable energy capacity, including 1.7 GW coming from wind farms.
Dr Rabia Ferroukhi, head of IRENA's policy unit and deputy director of knowledge, policy and finance, said the low carbon energy transition was improving economic opportunity and boosting social wellbeing in countries which had supportive regulatory frameworks for renewables.
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