For the second year in a row, America’s energy efficiency businesses led the nation’s energy economy in creating jobs—accounting for about half (76,000) of the sector’s entire job growth in 2018 (151,700).

Energy efficiency employs more Americans than the entire fossil fuel industry in 41 states and the District of Columbia, and twice as many nationwide. Energy efficiency’s consistently strong year-over-year job growth—and growing integration in the economic value chain and built environment—is turning the industry into the energy sector’s most viable (and efficient) job creator. Across every time zone, state, county line, and even zip code, energy efficiency solutions are advancing economic opportunities for American workers and their families. Jobs that will grow locally, jobs that become careers, and jobs that cannot be outsourced.