Clean energy to generator 300K new jobs by 2022: Study

More than 300,000 new workers can be employed in wind and solar jobs and more than 1 million total employment opportunities can be created in achieving India’s ambitious clean energy goals to install 160 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power by 2022, according to a study of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).  

The labour-intensive rooftop solar segment will employ 70 percent of the new workforce, creating seven times more jobs than large-scale projects such as solar farms.

CEEW-NRDC study also finds that strong growth in the domestic solar manufacturing industry could provide