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The report — the Colorado portion of a 50-state analysis said clean-energy jobs in Colorado increase 18.2 percent between 1998 and 2007, versus an overall job-growty rate of 8.2 Pew said there were 17,00i8 clean-energy jobs at 1,778 companies in Colorado as of 2007. Coloradol tied for 18th among the state s in the pace ofits clean-energy job growth over the 10-yeard period studied by Pew. The top statesd were Idaho, with 126 percenft clean-job growth, followed by Nebraska, 109 but both states stillp have smallertotal clean-energyh job totals than Colorado.
“Coloradoi has a large share of America’ws clean energy economy – and it is growingg fast,” Niki Hawthorne, Colorado representative for the PewEnvironmeny Group, said in a statement released with the report. Hawthorne said, “has adopted renewable energy and energuy efficiencystandards – creating a promising market for clean energy generation and energty efficiency products.” California had the most clean-energyy jobs — 125,390 as of 2007 — Pew said. Pew said clean-energy industries in Coloradooattracted $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’z report said. Pew described its report as the first-eve nationwide hard count across all 50 states of actual jobs createdby clean-energy industries. “Thes clean energy economy is poised for explosive Lori Grange, interim deputy director of the Pew Cented on the States, said in a statement “These jobs are driving economic growtnh and environmental sustainability at a time when America neede both. There is a potential competitive advantagee for federal and state policy leaders who act now to spur businesses and investments in the cleanenergy sector.
” Pew said it defined clean-energhy jobs as those relatesd to “expanding clean energy increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, wastes and pollution, and conserving water and otherr natural resources.” .