#Industry News
IRENA: Solar PV represents 44% of renewables global workforce
Solar PV jobs represented 44% of all the global renewable energy workforce in 2023, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
In its 11th edition of the ‘Renewable Energy and Jobs’ annual report, IRENA highlighted that directly or indirectly, renewable energy employed 16.2 million people in 2023, of which 7.1 million jobs were in the solar PV industry. Most job additions between 2022 and 2023 came from solar PV which added nearly 2.2 million new workers, as shown in the chart above.