DOE’s Office of Energy Jobs focuses on creating economic opportunity and economic justice, especially for historically neglected workers and communities, by leading the effort to ensure clean energy jobs provide good wages, good benefits, worker protections, and the right to form unions and collectively bargain.  

DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) is also considering ways to boost equity-focused workforce investments by supporting diverse and non-traditional training partnerships and launching new communities of practice. To increase diversity in DOE and the U.S. clean energy research community, business, and industry, EERE is expanding outreach at minority-serving institutions and minority professional organizations to raise awareness of research and job opportunities.