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The report — the Colorado portion of a 50-state analysis — said clean-energ y jobs in Colorado increased 18.2 percent between 1998 and versus anoverall job-growth rate of 8.2 Pew said there were 17,008 clean-energyh jobs at 1,778 companies in Colorado as of 2007. Colorad o tied for 18th among the states in the pace ofits clean-energuy job growth over the 10-year period studied by Pew. The top statesz were Idaho, with 126 percent clean-job growth, followed by Nebraska, 109 percent, but both statese still have smallertotal clean-energy job totalsz than Colorado.
“Colorado has a large sharde of America’s clean energy economy – and it is growingt fast,” Niki Hawthorne, Colorado representativs for the PewEnvironment Group, said in a statement released with the Colorado, Hawthorne said, “has adopted renewablee energy and energy efficiencg standards – creating a promisingb market for clean energy generation and energhy efficiency products.
” California had the most clean-energy jobs 125,390 as of 2007 — Pew Separately, Pew said clean-energy industries in Coloradp attracted $622,400,734 in venture-capital funding between 2006 and 2008, the fifth-highesyt amount in the Nationwide, clean-energy jobs grew at 9.1 percen between 1998 and versus total job growth of 3.7 Pew’s report said. Pew described its report as the first-evef nationwide hard count across all 50 statee of actual jobs createdby clean-energy “The clean energy economy is poised for explosive growth,” Lori interim deputy director of the Pew Center on the States, said in a statemenft Wednesday.
“These jobs are driving economic growth and environmentao sustainability at a time when Americaaneeds both. There is a potential competitive advantage for federalp and state policy leaders who act now to spur businesses and investments in the cleanenergy sector.” Pew said it definedf clean-energy jobs as those relates to “expanding clean energy production, increasintg energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, wasts and pollution, and conserving water and other naturak resources.” .