Workers riveting solar panels to roofs, keeping wind turbines spinning, and weatherizing homes across the nation are part of a job market that’s been outpacing U.S. employment growth overall. Renewable energy jobs now comprise more than 40 percent of the country’s 8.35 million people employed in the energy industry, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) published in September. Private clean energy companies, governments, and nonprofits added 250,000 jobs in the energy industry in 2023, more than half of them in renewable energy.