It has been a decade since NCSEA first reported a baseline measure of North Carolina’s Clean Energy Industry in 2008. NCSEA’s industry measurement and reporting over the last decade tells a tremendous story of statewide economic growth that few imagined in 2008. Over this time, clean energy has been a stable stalwart of investment, revenue, and employment growth for North Carolina – adding jobs in each year of the Great Recession and the economic recovery that followed. 

The Clean Energy Industry in North Carolina now boasts participation by approximately 1,700 companies (up from 468 in 2008), provides more than 43,000 jobs (up from 6,470), and generates over $14 billion in annual revenue (up from $3.5 billion in 2009).