U.S. electric utility employment 2022, by energy technology

In 2022, almost 177,000 people worked for utilities in the electric power generation sector in the United States. Around 64,000 of these employees worked in power generation from natural gas sources. Nuclear-powered electric utilities employed some 41,000 employees that year.Fossil fuel sector in the U.S.In 2022, over 50 percent of the people working in U.S. power utilities were employed in plants fueled by natural gas, coal, oil, or combined heat and power. However, the country plans over 74 gigawatts worth of capacity retirements from hydrocarbon plants between 2024 and 2035, approximately 10 percent of the existing fossil fuel energy capacity in the U.S.. As a result, the fossil fuel sector will likely see employment decrease. Clean energy sector in the U.S.Nuclear energy utilities in the U.S. had the second-largest number of employees after natural gas in 2022, and the nuclear industry jobs in the country had a fourfold increase when the power plant Vogtle started operations in 2023. Although renewable energy contribution to the employment figures in 2022 was limited, both hydropower and solar energy-related jobs showed a growing trend that year.

于2022年，美国电力发电领域的公用事业部门约有177,000名员工。其中，约64,000名员工在天然气发电领域工作。同年，核能电力公用事业部门雇佣了约41,000名员工。在美国，化石燃料领域在2022年的电力公用事业从业人员中占比超过50%，然而，该国计划在2024年至2035年间从碳氢化合物发电厂中退役超过74吉瓦的产能，这大约相当于美国现有化石燃料能源产能的10%。因此，化石燃料领域的工作岗位可能会出现减少。在美国的清洁能源领域，核能电力公用事业部门在2022年的员工数量仅次于天然气发电领域，而随着2023年Vogtle核电站的运营启动，该国的核工业工作岗位数量实现了四倍的增长。尽管可再生能源在2022年的就业数据中贡献有限，但水电和太阳能相关的工作岗位当年均显示出增长的趋势。