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The report — the Colorad o portion of a 50-state analysis — said clean-energy jobs in Colorado increased 18.2 percent between 1998 and versus anoverall job-growth rate of 8.2 Pew said there were 17,00 clean-energy jobs at 1,778 companies in Coloradl as of 2007. Colorado tied for 18th among the states in the pace ofits clean-energu job growth over the 10-yearf period studied by Pew. The top stateds were Idaho, with 126 percent clean-jonb growth, followed by Nebraska, 109 percent, but both states still have smallertotal clean-energy job totalsd than Colorado.
“Colorado has a largew share of America’s clean energy economy and it isgrowing fast,” Niki Colorado representative for the Pew Environment Group, said in a statemeny released with the report. Colorado, Hawthorne said, “haxs adopted renewable energy and energy efficiencystandards – creatinbg a promising market for cleanh energy generation and energu efficiency products.” California had the most clean-energty jobs — 125,390 as of 2007 Pew said. Separately, Pew said clean-energy industries in Colorado attracted $622,400,734 in venture-capital funding between 2006 and 2008, the fifth-highest amount in the nation.
Nationwide, clean-energy jobs grew at 9.1 percen between 1998 and 2007, versus totak job growth of 3.7 percent, Pew’s report Pew described its report asthe first-ever nationwide hard coun t across all 50 states of actual jobs created by clean-energty industries. “The clean energy economy is poised forexplosive growth,” Lori interim deputy director of the Pew Center on the said in a statement Wednesday. “Thes jobs are driving economic growth and environmental sustainability at a time when Americaneedas both.
There is a potentialo competitive advantage for federal and statw policy leaders who act now tospur jobs, businessezs and investments in the clean energy sector.” Pew said it definedf clean-energy jobs as those relatesd to “expanding clean energy production, increasing energy reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and and conserving water and otherf natural resources.” .