SOLAR INDUSTRY JOBS 2014

Solar employment grew 20x faster than the overall economy

THE U.S. SOLAR INDUSTRY HAD A GREAT YEAR, AND 2015 LOOKS EQUALLY BRIGHT!

20102011

20122013

2014

86%JOB GROWTH OVER FOUR YEARS

200K

150K

100K

50K

0

BY COMPARISON...

2015 Solar Jobs Growth Forecast

8x GREATERthan Oil, Gas & Coal C O M B I N E D

SOLAR INDUSTRY

U.S. businesses added nearly 1.8 million jobs over 2014, a growth rate of 1.1%.

1.1% 21.8%U.S. OVERALL

U.S. solar firms added more than 31,000 jobs over that same period.

INSTALLATION

(97,000)COAL MINING

(93,000)

MANUFACTURING

SALES & DIST

PROJECT DEV’SALL OTHER

TOTAL JOBS BY TYPE

174,000 SOLAR JOBS

80,000 solar jobs added

since 2010

2014 JOB GROWTHOne out of every 78 new jobs was created by the solar industry

SOLAR COAL

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S O L A R E M P L O Y E R S exceeded their predictions in each of the last two years by

2.7% and 6.2%R E S P E C T I V E L Y

PROJECTED 2015 GROWTH:

20.9%

Full details in The Solar Foundation’s National Solar Job Census 2014 at:

www.tsfcensus.org