Solar jobs to hit 13.7 million by 2035, energy jobs to rise globally

If, as we have said repeatedly, the solar industry is going to go through the most aggressive growth out of all of the renewable markets, then surely jobs growth will come with that, and rapidly overtake the 3 million people globally estimated to be working in solar now. Taking in data from our long term DER forecast, adjusting for different employment densities, both over time, and over different project sizes, and applying a slightly different learning curve to each sub-sector, we have come up with the employment graph below for solar employment to 2050. It is not the most sophisticated model we have built, and we are not claiming that the solar industry will employ precisely this number of people,…