The table gives information about the amount of energy produced from renewable resources in the UK and how many people were hired in each sector in 2009. Overall, the proportion of hydropower produced was highest among the others, while the quantity of employees in hydropower was lowest compared to others . In contrast, the data of solar energy was lowest while the number of staff was highest among the others.
In 2009, the proportion of hydropower regenerated was 13.7%, which was highest compared to the others. The following figure was wind power, which was 10.2%. Moreover, the figures for tidal power and geothermal were slightly the same, which were 6.8% and 6.9%, respectively. The figure for solar energy was the lowest, at 3.6%.
Regarding employees in each sector, although the amount of solar energy regenerated was lowest, the staff in this sector was clearly the highest, at 12,450 people in 2009. Furthermore, the number of people working in geothermal was 4,590, which was nearly twice as high as tidal power, which was 2,034 staff. Besides, both figures for workers in wind power and hydropower were nearly the same, which were 1,198 and 1,013, respectively.