2024 Clean Energy Industry Report

As detailed in the 2024 Rhode Island Clean Energy Industry Report, clean energy is growing faster than any year since 2018, increasing by 466 workers at a rate of 3.2 percent. Clean energy employment growth in 2023 was nearly double that of 2022 (466 and 254, respectively) and outpaced overall job growth statewide (3.2% vs. 1.9% overall) over the same period, with a growth from 14,510 jobs over 2022, to 14,976 over 2023. The clean energy economy gained 466 jobs over this period, the largest net gain in five years. 

While Rhode Island has yet to achieve pre-pandemic clean energy job levels, the continued growth over the last three years indicates the state is on track to recover fully in the coming years. Every clean energy technology sector grew in employment over the last year, and all but one saw higher growth rates than the year before. The only technology sector to see a lesser growth rate from 2022 to 2023 is clean transportation, however this sector maintained the highest growth rate of any technology in this year’s report at 7.8 percent. In Rhode Island, the amount of electric vehicle registrations grew by almost half (48.8 percent), from 4,300 in 2022 to 6,400 in 2023.2 The largest net gain of workers was in the energy efficiency sector, adding 225 workers, followed by renewable and efficient heating and cooling with a 119-worker increase. Renewable energy also grew, gaining 84 jobs in the clean energy economy.