The Solar Foundation found that the U.S. solar industry employed 208,859 Americans in 2015, a figure that includes the addition of 35,052 solar workers over the previous year, representing 20.2 percent growth in solar industry employment in the 12 months preceding November 2015.

Solar employment grew nearly 12 times faster than the national employment growth rate of 1.7 percent during the same period.

The sector witnessed an increase of 123% in employment since 2010.

Read the press release on the Solar Foundation’s site.

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