DOE publishes energy employment report

Source: U.S. Department of Energy

May 11, 2016

BY Pellet Mill Magazine Staff

The U.S. Department of Energy has released its first annual energy employment analysis. The report focuses on how changes in America’s energy profile are affecting national employment in the nation’s energy sectors.

An estimated 3.64 million Americans currently work in traditional energy industries, including production, transmission, distribution and storage. Of those workers, 600,000 contribute to the production of low-carbon electricity, including renewable energy, nuclear energy and low-emission natural gas.

Regarding biobased renewables, the report indicates that the entire U.S. agriculture and forestry industry employs approximately 700,00 workers, with about 20 percent of those jobs contained within “detailed” energy-related industry subsectors that could include businesses working directly with generation and fuel technologies. “These detailed industries include corn and sugarcane farming, used for ethanol and biodiesel production, and logging or other forestry services, which contribute to woody biomass and pellet fuel,” said the DOE in the report. “Of these industries, about 18,000 agriculture and forestry employees work to support electric power generation and fuel production.”

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