Investor Presentaiton
Solar
Renewable energy employment in 2018 (in thousand jobs)
Photovoltaic
Liquid Biofuels
Hydropower
Wind Energy
Solar Heating/
Cooling
Solid Biomass
2063
2054
1160
801
787
Biogas
334
Geothermal
Energy
94
Municipal and
industrial waste
41
CSP
34
IRENA
International Renewable Energy Agency
Tide, Wave and
Ocean Energy
1
TT 3605
Off-grid solar for
energy access
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2 500
3.000
3 500
Jobs (thousands)
4 000
In total, 11 million
people were employed
across the renewables
sector in 2018
Source: IRENA jobs database.
Note: Another 7600 jobs, not shown separately here, cannot readily be broken down by individual renewable energy technology.
IRENA RENEWABLE ENERGY AND JOBS Annual Review 2019
International Renewable Energy Agency
Source: IRENA (2019)View entire presentation