"Figure 3: The number of LCRE employees in the production of electricity group was much lower than for the construction and manufacturing industries in 2017 ","" "Low carbon and renewable energy economy employment from selected industries, UK, 2015 to 2017","" "","" "Notes","1. Information on the coefficient of variation associated with estimates of employment used to derive this figure can be found in the datasets accompanying this release." "Unit","Full-time equivalents" "","" "","2015","2016","2017" "Manufacturing","68100","66500","60100" "Construction","75200","74600","80900" "Electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply","11500","13500","14100" "Total UK low carbon and renewable energy economy ","202200","208300","209500"