Nevada posted a roughly 22 percent decrease in
solar jobs compared to 2016, although it still employed more than 6,500 people in the solar industry in 2017.
Not exact matches
Given that, I doubt that even US employment in renewable energy will fall in absolute terms in 2017,
compared with the 2014 number — though you'd have to think that if the ITC does sunset as scheduled that it would restrain
jobs growth in renewables generally, and particularly so in residential
solar.
Compared to existing New Jersey state subsidies for
solar at fifty times this amount per megawatt - hour, the proposed help for nuclear plants would provide outstanding environmental protection value while paying for itself through lower fossil fuel bills and retained in - state
jobs and tax revenue.