Employment in Texas’s advanced energy industry stands at an estimated 143,023 workers, according to a new report released on May 10th, 2016 by the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA).
That’s more people than are employed in chemical manufacturing and petroleum refining, twice as many as employed by airlines, and nearly as many working in building construction in the Lone Star State, finds “Advanced Energy Jobs in Texas”.
Employers engaged in advanced energy business expect to increase their workforce by 7 percent this year, which would bring Texas’s advanced energy industry to over 152,000 jobs.
At nearly 39,000 workers, employment in Texas advanced electricity generation, makes up 27 percent of the advanced energy workforce. Wind accounts for about 44 percent of these jobs, solar 28 percent, and advanced natural gas 16 percent.
“Advanced energy is a large and growing industry in Texas, and it’s paying off in real jobs for Texans,” said Suzanne Bertin, Executive Director of Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA), a business association of advanced energy companies in Texas.
“The reliability and cost benefits of advanced energy technologies are driving growth in the industry, and employers expect to add jobs in the coming year. That’s good news for our companies and for the Texas economy.”
A new Energy Employment Index, produced by BW Research Partnership, makes it possible to quantify jobs in the advanced energy industry for the first time. The Index is based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a detailed survey of more than 20,000 businesses nationwide conducted between September and November of 2015.
In this report, advanced energy employees are defined as full-time and part-time permanent employees of businesses that are engaged in making or deploying advanced energy products and services for all or a portion of their revenue, and who themselves support the advanced energy portion of these businesses.
Advanced energy workers are those who spend some or all of their time on advanced energy work such as energy efficiency, advanced electricity generation (including wind, solar, and natural gas), biofuels, advanced grid technology, and advanced vehicles.
The report also illustrates the variety of jobs with eight profiles of Texas advanced energy workers.
“Working in the solar industry was the number-one draw for me,” said Robyn Kenkel of Sunnova Energy Corp. in Houston, one of the workers profiled.
“It’s rare that you have an opportunity to be part of something so innovative and transformational.”
The TAEBA jobs report follows Advanced Energy in Texas, published last year, a market report that found advanced energy represented a USD 16 billion industry in Texas.
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