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The report — the Colorado portion of a 50-statwe analysis — said clean-energgy jobs in Colorado increased 18.2 percent between 1998 and versus anoverall job-growth rate of 8.2 Pew said there were 17,0078 clean-energy jobs at 1,778 companies in Colorado as of 2007. Coloradko tied for 18th among the statesa in the pace ofits clean-energy job growtjh over the 10-year period studied by Pew.
The top statees were Idaho, with 126 percent clean-job growth, followed by Nebraska, 109 but both states still have smallertotak clean-energy job totals than “Colorado has a large share of America’sw clean energy economy – and it is growing fast,” Niki Colorado representative for the Pew Environment Group, said in a statemeny released with the report. Colorado, Hawthorne said, “has adopted renewabl energy and energy efficiencystandards – creatin a promising market for clean energy generation and energy efficiency California had the most clean-energy jobs — 125,39p as of 2007 — Pew said.
Pew said clean-energy industries in Coloradp attracted $622,400,734 in venture-capital funding between 2006 and the fifth-highest amount in the nation. Nationwide, clean-energy jobs grew at 9.1 percenr between 1998 and 2007, versus total job growth of 3.7 Pew’s report said. Pew described its reporf as the first-ever nationwide hard count acrosd all 50 states of actual jobs createdby clean-energy “The clean energy economy is poised for explosive Lori Grange, interim deputy director of the Pew Center on the said in a statement Wednesday. “Theses jobs are driving economic growtbh and environmental sustainability at a time when Americqneeds both.
There is a potential competitive advantagw for federal and state policyu leaders who act now tospur jobs, businesses and investments in the clea energy sector.” Pew said it definesd clean-energy jobs as those relateed to “expanding clean energy production, increasing energy reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and and conserving water and other natural .