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Originally published on March 17, 2021 2:40 pm
The wind and solar industries made historic gains last year. Both reached new highs in energy production and capacity in 2020.
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However, COVID-19 hit the renewables workforce hard. Nearly 430,000 workers lost their jobs during the pandemic and didn’t get them back by the end of last year. That’s a 12% decline, according to BW Research Partnership.
In an email, BW Research Partnership Vice President Philip Jordan blamed a few things for this diverging pattern. First, he said sales for things like solar panels are “going online instead of in person, which requires fewer workers and is just accelerating an existing trend.”
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