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Verde Talent is a clean energy job board and hiring data source. Every month we publish the Clean Energy Hiring Report on where US clean energy is being built, what the jobs pay and how people get in. Journalists are welcome to use the findings below with a link to the report.
Latest findings · October 2026 report
- Texas holds 32% of the solar, wind and storage capacity scheduled to be built in the US, but only 9% of the people who already work in the field.
- Texas has 1.2 GW of solar, wind and storage on the way for every 1,000 clean energy workers, about 3.4 times the national rate of 0.35 GW.
- Lineworkers lead clean energy field and trade roles, with a median advertised salary of $117,146.
- About one in four solar roles is entry level. In battery storage and hydrogen it is fewer than one in twenty.
- NERC certification is the credential named most often in open US clean energy job postings (248 postings). NABCEP is named in only 22.
- Wind turbine technician is Texas's most common clean energy opening: 154 open US roles, a $58,760 median advertised salary, and 40 openings in Texas alone.
Source: Open US job postings on Verde Talent on October 5, 2026, across 80 energy companies; EIA generator inventory (August 2026); U.S. Energy & Employment Report (2026). Read the full report.
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Online, please link to the report. Live figures (open jobs, pay by role and state) are on Verde Talent Intelligence and the salary benchmarks.
Founder
Adam Heugel is the founder of Verde Talent, the clean energy job board and hiring data source covering solar, wind, battery storage, grid, EV and hydrogen roles across 80 energy companies. He writes Verde Talent's monthly Clean Energy Hiring Report. Adam also founded Lotus Scout, an executive and specialist search firm focused on energy, technology and engineering.
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