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Clean energy installations have persisted at record levels despite President Donald Trump’s best efforts to stop them. But the first year of Trump’s second term did leave a mark on U.S. jobs in the sector.
Clean energy jobs fell in 2025 after four years of steady growth, according to a new analysis of federal jobs data by business-focused environmental advocacy group E2. The U.S. had 3.52 million clean energy jobs at the end of 2025, down nearly 37,000 from the year before. That drop represents just about 1% of the clean energy workforce, but was enough to erase about 40% of the previous year’s job growth.
The big caveat is that overall energy employment also fell between 2024 and 2025. The clean energy job losses closely track clean energy’s share of overall energy jobs, suggesting that the drop, while a substantial break from the previous four years, might have more to do with broader energy sector trends than the unique challenges facing clean energy.
It’s been hard to say definitively how well clean energy has fared under the current administration; federal policy has turned against renewables and electric vehicles again and again, yet raw clean energy deployment numbers have continued their dominant streak from the Biden years. Solar is the No. 1 pick for new power plants getting built in America, followed by batteries and wind. Factories have continued to open, reshoring production of batteries , solar panels , and even cells .
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