Key takeaways from this year’s report:
- Clean energy and clean transportation companies added more than 25,000 jobs in 2022, now employing over 734,000 Midwesterners.
- Midwest clean energy jobs grew by nearly 4 percent in 2022, 50 percent faster than the region’s overall economy.
- Growth in 2022 was driven by clean transportation, which grew by 11.2%, adding more than 12,096 jobs across the region.
- Michigan employs the most clean energy workers with a total of 123,983, followed by Illinois (123,799), and Ohio (114,395).
The energy efficiency sector continued to lead clean energy in total jobs in 2022 with 487,285 workers followed by clean transportation (119,786) and renewable energy (92,619).