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<p>The energy industries directly employed 178,000 people in 2016. Further jobs are
supported indirectly, for example, an estimated 152,000 were employed in support of
UK oil and gas extraction, while the ONS separately estimates that the low carbon
electricity sector employed 40,500 in the supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Table
2 of UK Energy in Brief <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/631147/UK_Energy_in_Brief_2017_dataset.xls"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/631147/UK_Energy_in_Brief_2017_dataset.xls</a></p>
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