Economy
Will Jobs in Solar Energy Keep Growing?
The solar workforce has been expanding fast, and a shift in federal policy probably won’t change that.
Solar power accounts for less than one percent of the country’s electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The industry got off to a slow start. The creation of the first silicon solar cell in 1954 could have ushered in a golden age of clean energy; instead we got more coal, petroleum, and natural gas.
But the U.S. is tapping into the plentiful resource of solar energy more and more.