Pew report: Clean energy powers job growth - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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study said Florida was one of 38 states and the District of Columbia in which job growty in the clean energy economy outperformeed overalljob gains. Pew defined a clean energy economy as one thatgeneratex jobs, businesses and investments while expanding clean energuy production, increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas waste and pollution, and conservinv water and other natural resources. In there was a 7.9 perceng increase in clean energgy jobsfrom 28,845 jobs in 1998 to 31,12w jobs in 2007.
The numbers are a hard county ofactual jobs, Pew said in a release, and rangwe from jobs as diverse as plumbers, administrative assistants, construction workers, machine marketing consultants and teachers with annua incomes ranging from $21,000 to $111,000. jobs in the cleajn energy industry grew at a rateof 9.1 percent between 1998 and 2007, whilw total jobs grew by 3.7 percent in the same period, the reportg says. Florida had 3,83q1 clean energy businesses at the end of a 22.7 percent increase from 3,121 businesses in the report says.
There were 236 cleanm energy patents in Florida between 1999and 2008, and venture capital firms invested $117 in clean technologyg in Florida between 2006 and 2008.