Source: Habitat Mag

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All those workers installing solar panels on New York City co-ops and condos, or replacing steam radiators with electric heat pumps, or performing other clean-energy retrofits are not only helping the environment. They’re helping the economy.

The New York metro area is leading the U.S. in the creation of clean-energy jobs, ahead of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other major cities, according to the eighth annual Clean Energy Jobs Americareport released Thursday. And, Crain’s reports, New York State is third behind California and Texas in producing green jobs, according to the report’s data, which was published by non-partisan, San Francisco-based business group Environmental Entrepreneurs or E2.

“Because of policy,” Uchenna Bright, the northeast advocate with E2, tells Crain’s in an interview,” I think, our city and state is up there leading with not just the technology, but the workers to get it done.”

In 2022 New York had 166,014 workers in the clean-energy sector in a variety of fields, including renewable energy, storage and grid, energy efficiency, biofuels and clean vehicles. The figure has steadily grown from 152,789 in 2020. Currently, the bulk of the sector’s workforce in New York is in energy-efficiency, with a whopping 126,008 jobs, the report shows.

Read more: Co-op and Condo Green Retrofits Are Good for the Environment — and the Economy