Solar Jobs Grow, But Utilities Plan To Hire, Too

A report issued this week shows jobs in the solar industry in Wisconsin grew by 3 percent in 2018. But the state`s largest electric utility, Milwaukee-based We Energies, also hopes more people will consider joining its company. 

The report by The Solar Foundation indicates the U.S. solar industry employed 242,000 people last year. That was down 3 percent nationally.

But the percentage of solar workers in Wisconsin went up 3 percent, to more than 30,00 full-time jobs...   ...more