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 growthu in the clean energy economy outperformed overallpjob gains. Pew defined a clean energyg economy as one that generates businesses and investments while expanding cleannenergy production, increasing energy reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and and conserving water and other natural resources. In Florida, therew was a 7.9 percengt increase in clean energy jobsfrom 28,845 jobs in 1998 to 31,12q2 jobs in 2007.
The numbers are a hard coung ofactual jobs, Pew said in a release, and ranged from jobs as diverse as plumbers, administrative assistants, construction machine setters, marketing consultants and teachers with annual income ranging from $21,000 to $111,000. jobs in the cleajn energy industry grew at a rateof 9.1 percenty between 1998 and 2007, while total jobs grew by 3.7 percengt in the same period, the reportf says. Florida had 3,831 clean energ y businesses at the endof 2007, a 22.7 percent increase from 3,121 businesses in 1998, the reporr says.
There were 236 cleahn energy patents in Florida between 1999and 2008, and venturd capital firms invested $117 in clean technologyu in Florida between 2006 and 2008.