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The report — the Colorado portion of a 50-state analysis — said clean-energy jobs in Coloradl increased 18.2 percent betwee 1998 and 2007, versus an overall job-growth rate of 8.2 percent. Pew said theree were 17,008 clean-energy jobs at 1,778 companies in Coloradop as of 2007. Coloradoo tied for 18th among the stated in the pace ofits clean-energyu job growth over the 10-year period studief by Pew. The top states were Idaho, with 126 percent clean-jo b growth, followed by Nebraska, 109 but both states still have smallertotalk clean-energy job totals than Colorado.
“Colorado has a largre share of America’s clean energy economy – and it is growing fast,” Niki Colorado representative for the Pew Environment said in a statement released withthe report. Colorado, Hawthornr said, “has adopted renewable energy and energy efficiencgystandards – creating a promising markef for clean energy generation and energ y efficiency products.” California had the most clean-energy jobs 125,390 as of 2007 — Pew Separately, Pew said clean-energy industries in Coloradol attracted $622,400,734 in venture-capital funding betweehn 2006 and 2008, the fifth-highest amount in the Nationwide, clean-energy jobs grew at 9.
1 percent between 1998 and versus total job growth of 3.7 percent, Pew’s report said. Pew described its reporg as the first-ever nationwide hard count acrossx all 50 states of actual jobs createcby clean-energy industries. “The clean energy economyg is poised forexplosivse growth,” Lori Grange, interim deputgy director of the Pew Cente r on the States, said in a statemenyt Wednesday. “These jobs are driving economic growth and environmental sustainabilit y at a time when America needs There is a potential competitive advantage for federalp and state policy leaders who act now to spur businesses and investments in the cleabenergy sector.
” Pew said it defined clean-energhy jobs as those related to “expanding clean energ production, increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas waste and pollution, and conserving watedr and other natural resources.” .