According to foreign media reports, Blue Ridge Power, a photovoltaic company headquartered in North Carolina, recently submitted a notice to the local government on the Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notice Act, announcing large-scale layoffs. According to
the data, Blue Ridge Power is a photovoltaic EPC company established by Pine Gate Renewable, a utility-scale solar energy developer in the United States, in 2021, specializing in solar energy and energy storage projects. According to the company's official website, it has built 8GW solar projects across the United States.
Reported that Blue Ridge Power laid off a total of 517 employees, including 348 employees in Cumberland County and 169 employees in Buncombe County. The
Digital New Energy DataBM. Com learned from another media report that the layoffs will be completed by November 18.
"Over the past few months, the company has been affected by many factors beyond its control, including the changing regulatory environment and capital market environment, which have also impacted many other businesses in the renewable energy industry." David Sanders, president of Blue Ridge Power, said.
"Blue Ridge Power has encountered market headwinds similar to those experienced by the renewable energy industry as a whole, which has forced us to devote significant resources to supporting the company.". After reviewing multiple possible paths forward, we ultimately made the difficult decision to bring Blue Ridge Power to an orderly close. The Pine Gate Renewables said in a statement.
According to the latest report of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), an independent environmental advocacy organization in the United States, 6012 new jobs were added in the solar industry between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the fourth quarter of 2024. Bringing the total number of solar jobs in the United States to 370,000, accounting for more than 60% of all jobs in renewable energy generation in the United States.
According to another study by E2, since January 2025, companies have cancelled more than $ 22 billion in clean energy-related factories and other projects. The projects had been expected to create 16,500 new jobs . Analyses by other agencies estimate that the rollback of energy policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law by President Trump on July 4 alone could result in the loss of more than 830,000 jobs.
Looking ahead, the E2 report points out that the passage of the " Big Beautiful Act" in particular may pose a challenge to the sustained growth of renewable energy employment in the United States. The report points out that 330,000 jobs in the solar industry alone could be at risk from "direct, indirect and induced" risks, which is equivalent to a threat to 89% of the current jobs in the U.S. solar industry.
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