U.S. power generation industry statistics: solar energy employs 2.5 times as many people as coal-fired power plants

Before Trump took over as U.
S.
president, the Obama administration's Department of Energy published the 2017 edition of the U.
S.
Energy and Jobs Report
.
According to the data disclosed in the report, the total number of employees in the US solar industry reached 373,807 at the end of the first quarter of 2016, an increase of 24.
5% over the same period in 2015; The number of employees in the wind power industry reached 101,738, an increase of 31.
9% over the same period of the previous year; The number of employees in coal-fired power plants (including coal, natural gas and oil-fired power generation) was 151,000, an increase of 11.
0%
over the same period of the previous year.

In comparison, the U.
S.
solar industry is a major job creator, employing about 2.
5 times
as many people as the fossil energy thermal power industry.
Of the more than 370,000 employees in the solar industry, 36.
7% are construction and installation personnel; 26.
5% are marketers; 18.
5% are manufacturing personnel; 15.
3% were professional service personnel and 3%
were other related practitioners.