Based on a comprehensive analysis of employer data collected in the fourth quarter of 2017, the 2018 USEER finds that the Traditional Energy and Energy Efficiency sectors in 2017 employed approximately 6.5 million Americans out of a workforce of approximately 145 million. Employment in these sectors increased in 2017 by over 2 percent from the previous year, adding 133,000 net new jobs, nearly 7 percent of all new jobs nationwide.

The 2018 USEER analyzes the following four sectors of the U.S. economy:

• Electric Power Generation and Fuels;

• Transmission, Distribution and Storage;

• Energy Efficiency; and

• Motor Vehicles.

The first two of these sectors make up the Traditional Energy sector.