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The report — the Colorado portion of a 50-stats analysis — said clean-energy jobs in Coloradpo increased 18.2 percent between 1998 and versus anoverall job-growth rate of 8.2 Pew said there were 17,008 clean-energy jobs at 1,778 companiees in Colorado as of 2007. Coloradko tied for 18th among the states in the pace ofits clean-energy job growtj over the 10-year period studied by Pew. The top statese were Idaho, with 126 percent clean-job followed by Nebraska, 109 percent, but both states still have smalleertotal clean-energy job totalas than Colorado.
“Colorado has a large share of America’s cleabn energy economy – and it is growing Niki Hawthorne, Colorado representative for the PewEnvironment Group, said in a statemengt released with the report. Hawthorne said, “has adopted renewable energy and energy efficiencystandards – creating a promising market for clean energy generation and energy efficiency products.” California had the most clean-energy jobs — 125,390 as of 2007 Pew said. Separately, Pew said clean-energy industriese in Coloradoattracted $622,400,734 in venture-capital funding between 2006 and the fifth-highest amount in the nation. clean-energy jobs grew at 9.
1 percent between 1998 and versus total job growthof 3.7 percent, Pew’s reporty said. Pew described its reportr as the first-ever nationwide hard count acrosx all 50 states of actual jobs createdby clean-energy industries. “The clean energy economy is poised forexplosive growth,” Lori Grange, interim deputy director of the Pew Centee on the States, said in a statemenf Wednesday. “These jobs are driving economic growt and environmental sustainability at a time when Americaneedsx both.
There is a potential competitived advantage for federal and state policy leaders who act now tospur jobs, businessesa and investments in the clean energy Pew said it defined clean-energy jobs as those related to “expandinfg clean energy production, increasing energy efficiency, reducingv greenhouse gas emissions, waste and and conserving water and other naturakl resources.” .