DOE Refines Energy Jobs Survey for Sharper Employment Insights
Published Date: 2/26/2026
Notice
Summary
The Department of Energy is updating its Energy and Jobs Survey to better understand how energy work affects jobs across the U.S. This change helps improve the quality of data collected about energy-related employment and asks for public feedback by April 27, 2026. If you work in energy or care about jobs, this update could impact how information is gathered and used to shape future energy policies.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Survey Adds Critical Materials, Data Centers, AI
The Energy and Jobs Survey will be revised to collect data on additional priority industries, including the critical materials and data center supply chains, and to study the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the energy sector while promoting technology neutrality. The survey data continue to be used to produce the annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report under 42 U.S.C. 18841.
Survey Reporting Burden and Costs
DOE estimates the revised Energy and Jobs Survey will involve 58,226 respondents, 58,226 total annual responses, 13,019 annual burden hours, and an annual reporting and recordkeeping cost burden of $652,787. If you are a respondent to the survey, these are the aggregated time and cost estimates for compliance with the information collection.
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