Michigan Is Among The Top States For Clean Energy Jobs

Over the last 15-20 years, there has been a huge push for changing our energy sources into renewable resources rather than the destructive resources we have been using that are also close to being extinguished. This has been a long going process that has been seeing some rapid increase in the last few years. One of the exciting things about the change is the possible job availability.

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Of course, closing down coal mines and oil rigs will take away jobs which is unfortunate, but at the same time there will be tons of jobs opening up while the renewable and clean energy resource industries begin to take off. Michigan is one of the states that has already taken advantage of these new opportunities within the clean energy business.

The Clean Jobs America report says that Michigan currently has the 5th most clean energy workers and only sit behind California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois. Govenor Whitmer says that

The state of Michigan has been focused on creating high-skilled, good-paying jobs, bringing supply chains home, and reducing our reliance on foreign oil. We are making more clean American energy here in Michigan, protecting our precious air, land and lakes, and strengthening the future of our economy.

Michigan ranks second behind only California for jobs dedicated to clean energy jobs. That ranks second behind California, which has approximately 75,000 jobs, while Michigan has just over 33,000 jobs. A majority of Michigan’s clean energy jobs deal with energy efficiency, including manufacturing high-efficiency appliances, lighting, HVAC and “advanced building materials.

The bulk of the clean energy jobs are in metro Detroit. The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn area holds 68,555 of the state’s clean energy jobs. The Grand Rapids-Wyoming metro area has the second-most with 14,941. Kalamazoo-Portage is fourth at 3,593, behind the Lansing metro area. Michigan as a whole had a 4.3% increase in new clean energy jobs over the last year.