The impacts of COVID-19 on clean energy labor markets: Evidence from multifaceted analysis of public health interventions and COVID-health factors
Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic has affected clean energy labor market. Using real-time job vacancy data, this study analyzes the impacts of the pandemic on the U.S. clean energy labor market in 2020, including biomass, energy efficiency (EE), electric vehicle (EV), power/microgrid, solar, and wind industries. This study identifies how COVID-health factors and public health interventions influence clean energy job availability during the early COVID pandemic. Overall, California had the most energy jobs and experienced a significant decrease in April 2020. EV and solar had the highest percentages of job vacancies during the pandemic in general. Still, lockdowns had the most severe influence on EE and wind jobs. Stay-at-home orders negatively affected clean energy job vacancies in biomass, EV, power/microgrid, and wind. Social-gathering restrictions, however, did not have much influence. Increased COVID tests at the state level had the strongest and most positive influence on clean energy job postings, indicating the importance of a state's ability to manage public health infrastructure or crisis issues. COVID hospitalizations negatively influenced the job vacancies in biomass and wind but did not affect the other four sectors; conversely, as COVID death numbers increased, the number of jobs in biomass, EV, power grid, solar, and wind decreased, butmore »
- Authors:
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[1];
[2];
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States).
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN (United States).
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1871911
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1856064
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; EEC-1041877; CMMI-1901740
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy Policy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 164; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0301-4215
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
Citation Formats
Chen, Chien-fei, Liu, Yuanyang, Greig, Jamie Alexander, Shen, Zhenglai, and Shi, Yunye. The impacts of COVID-19 on clean energy labor markets: Evidence from multifaceted analysis of public health interventions and COVID-health factors. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112880.
Chen, Chien-fei, Liu, Yuanyang, Greig, Jamie Alexander, Shen, Zhenglai, & Shi, Yunye. The impacts of COVID-19 on clean energy labor markets: Evidence from multifaceted analysis of public health interventions and COVID-health factors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112880
Chen, Chien-fei, Liu, Yuanyang, Greig, Jamie Alexander, Shen, Zhenglai, and Shi, Yunye. Fri .
"The impacts of COVID-19 on clean energy labor markets: Evidence from multifaceted analysis of public health interventions and COVID-health factors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112880. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1871911.
@article{osti_1871911,
title = {The impacts of COVID-19 on clean energy labor markets: Evidence from multifaceted analysis of public health interventions and COVID-health factors},
author = {Chen, Chien-fei and Liu, Yuanyang and Greig, Jamie Alexander and Shen, Zhenglai and Shi, Yunye},
abstractNote = {COVID-19 pandemic has affected clean energy labor market. Using real-time job vacancy data, this study analyzes the impacts of the pandemic on the U.S. clean energy labor market in 2020, including biomass, energy efficiency (EE), electric vehicle (EV), power/microgrid, solar, and wind industries. This study identifies how COVID-health factors and public health interventions influence clean energy job availability during the early COVID pandemic. Overall, California had the most energy jobs and experienced a significant decrease in April 2020. EV and solar had the highest percentages of job vacancies during the pandemic in general. Still, lockdowns had the most severe influence on EE and wind jobs. Stay-at-home orders negatively affected clean energy job vacancies in biomass, EV, power/microgrid, and wind. Social-gathering restrictions, however, did not have much influence. Increased COVID tests at the state level had the strongest and most positive influence on clean energy job postings, indicating the importance of a state's ability to manage public health infrastructure or crisis issues. COVID hospitalizations negatively influenced the job vacancies in biomass and wind but did not affect the other four sectors; conversely, as COVID death numbers increased, the number of jobs in biomass, EV, power grid, solar, and wind decreased, but not in EE jobs.},
doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112880},
journal = {Energy Policy},
number = 1,
volume = 164,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Fri Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}
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