Rhode Island Clean Energy Internship Program
The Renewable Energy Fund (REF) and the RI Office of Energy Resources (OER) seeks to match clean energy companies with RI undergraduate and graduate interns for the Spring of 2022.
We are also pleased to announce the RI Clean Energy Internship Portal, where students and employers can now apply online. Visit the portal to create an account and apply now:
Applications will open on September 20, 2021 and close on December 10, 2021.
Rhode Island’s clean energy industry has seen significant employment growth, with an impressive 74% increase since 2014. However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, employment across clean energy businesses declined by over 2,500 jobs—or 15.5 percent—between the last quarters of 2019 and 2020. Clean energy job losses represented about 4.5 percent of all jobs lost over the course of 2020. The economic aftermath of COVID-19 eliminated roughly four years of clean energy job growth, sending Rhode Island’s clean energy economy back to 2016 employment levels. As of the last quarter of 2020, there were 11,158 clean energy workers that dedicated all of their work week to supporting clean energy goods and services. Despite this setback, Rhode Island’s clean energy labor market appears to be overcoming this hurdle by gradually adding back jobs through 2021.