Ohio added 879 new jobs in the solar energy industry last year, according to a new study from BW Research Partnership.
Larry Sherwood is the CEO of the nonprofit, The Interstate Renewable Energy Council, that commissioned the comprehensive study. It took data from the Department of Energy’s 2022 United States Energy and Employment Report and from follow-up surveys of individual solar energy companies.
Sherwood said Ohio’s relatively strong solar energy job numbers can be attributed to a few things.
“The number of installations in Ohio is growing and growing rapidly, and Ohio also has more manufacturing jobs than most other states,” he said in an interview with WYSO.
Most of the state’s manufacturing jobs are at the First Solar panel factory near Toledo. First Solar is slated to be the largest solar panel producer outside of China by 2023.
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