LinkedIn Outreach Benchmarks for Renewables & Environment (2026)

Key Takeaways

In renewables and environment, the average LinkedIn connection acceptance rate is 26.3%. Replies to the connection note average 2.2%, and replies to a message after the connection is accepted average 12.5%. Those numbers come from 53,569 connection requests sent by 64 renewables and environment accounts between May 2025 and April 2026. Against the cross-industry averages of 28.5%, 3.0% and 10.4%, renewables and environment is above on message replies and below on acceptance and note replies.

Renewables & Environment vs. the platform average

Metric	Renewables & Environment	All industries	Difference	Rank
Connection acceptance	26.3%	28.5%	-2.2 pts	31st of 38
Connection-note reply	2.2%	3.0%	-0.8 pts	34th of 38
Message reply after acceptance	12.5%	10.4%	+2.1 pts	5th of 38

Across the 38 industries with at least 50 sending accounts, acceptance runs from 21.8% (telecommunications) to 36.5% (staffing & recruiting). Note replies run from 1.8% to 6.6%, and message replies from 7.2% to 18.9%.

What the numbers say about renewables outreach

Renewables and environment is the only industry with acceptance at 26.3% or less that still beats the platform end to end. Eight others sit at or below that acceptance line, and every one of them converts under the cross-industry 3.0 replies per 100 recipients. Renewables converts about 3.3, 11th of 38, and the difference is the conversation: message replies of 12.5% rank 5th.

The front of the sequence is weak. Acceptance of 26.3% ranks 31st of 38 and note replies of 2.2% rank 34th, both below the platform. Then the follow-up is answered at 12.5%, 2.1 points above the cross-industry 10.4%, and only staffing and recruiting, retail, food and beverage and events services do better on that measure. Getting accepted is hard for renewables senders; being answered once accepted is not.

Its closest matches are higher education, consumer goods and construction, which share the shape: below the platform on acceptance and notes, above it on messages. Renewables is the most pronounced version of it, with lower acceptance, fewer note replies and more message replies than any of the three. The sample is 64 accounts and 53,569 requests, small enough that 5th of 38 on message replies is better read as near the top than as an exact place.

If your numbers sit below these

The dataset says where an account sits, not why. From what we see in campaigns, three gaps come up most often in this sector, and they point at different problems.

Message replies under 12.5%. This is where the sector’s above-platform result comes from, 5th of 38, and with acceptance already below average it is the only step holding the end-to-end figure up. A shortfall here usually means the follow-up repeats the pitch instead of opening a conversation the recipient can answer in a line.

Acceptance under 26.3%. Already 31st of 38. A strong conversation absorbs some of the loss, but every connection missed here is one fewer chance at the sector’s best step. When acceptance drops while message replies hold, the list has usually widened beyond people with a live project or mandate the outreach relates to.

Note replies under 2.2%. At 34th of 38 the note is already one of the weakest in the set, and the sector beats the platform end to end anyway. A test of requests sent without a note, judged on acceptance rather than on note replies, is the more useful experiment here than another rewrite.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a good LinkedIn acceptance rate in renewables?

26.3% is the sector average, 2.2 points below the 28.5% cross-industry figure and 31st of 38 reported industries. Above 26.3% beats the sector, and an account near the 28.5% platform figure is doing well for renewables.

Is the connection note or the follow-up message more important in renewables outreach?

The follow-up. Renewables and environment averages 12.5% message replies after acceptance, 5th of 38 and above the 10.4% platform figure, but only 2.2% note replies, 34th of 38 and below the 3.0% average. The sector’s above-platform result of about 3.3 replies per 100 recipients comes from the message.

How does renewables compare with other industries?

Acceptance ranks 31st of 38, note replies 34th and message replies 5th. End to end about 3.3 in 100 recipients reply to a follow-up, 11th of 38 and ahead of the roughly 3.0 across all industries, despite below-average acceptance.

How this data was collected

Renewables & Environment is reported from 64 accounts and 53,569 connection requests sent between May 2025 and April 2026, drawn from the LinkedIn Outreach Benchmarks 2026 dataset of 13.2 million requests across 13,302 accounts. That report carries the full methodology, along with the breakdowns by sender seniority, company size and month that are not repeated here.

Two things to hold in mind while reading any of these figures. The industry is the sender’s, taken from their company profile, not the recipient’s. And only industries with at least 50 sending accounts are reported at all: below that, a single unusual account moves the average by several points, which is why some of the most extreme numbers in the full appendix are not published here.

Related industry benchmarks

• Construction, 26.9% acceptance and 11.4% message replies
• Computer & Network Security, 26.0% acceptance and 10.7% message replies
• Real Estate, 28.4% acceptance and 11.8% message replies
• All industry benchmarks

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Data updated 19 August 2026. Refreshed quarterly against the source report.