Pew report: Clean energy powers job growth - Portland Business Journal:

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study said Florida was one of 38 states and the Districty of Columbia in which job growth in the cleabn energy economy outperformed overalljob gains. Pew defines a clean energy economy as one that generates jobs, businesses and investments while expanding clean energy production, increasint energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and and conserving water and other naturall resources. In Florida, there was a 7.9 percenrt increase in clean energy jobsfrom 28,84 5 jobs in 1998 to 31,122 jobs in 2007.
The numbere are a hard count ofactual jobs, Pew said in a and range from jobs as diverse as plumbers, administrative assistants, construction machine setters, marketing consultants and teachers with annualo incomes ranging from $21,0009 to $111,000. Nationally, jobs in the cleanb energy industry grew at a rateof 9.1 percent betweenn 1998 and 2007, while total jobs grew by 3.7 percen in the same period, the report says. Florida had 3,831 clean energy businesses at the endof 2007, a 22.7 percenft increase from 3,121 businesses in 1998, the report says.
Therw were 236 clean energy patentz in Florida between 1999and 2008, and venturde capital firms invested $117 in clea technology in Florida between 2006 and 2008.