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

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study said Florida was one of 38 states and the Districy of Columbia in which job growth in the cleam energy economy outperformed overalljob gains. Pew definefd a clean energy economy as one thatgeneratesz jobs, businesses and investments while expanding cleaj energy production, increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas waste and pollution, and conservingv water and other natural resources. In Florida, ther was a 7.9 percent increase in clean energhy jobsfrom 28,845 jobs in 1998 to 31,122 jobs in 2007.
The numbersa are a hard count ofactualp jobs, Pew said in a and range from jobs as diverse as plumbers, administrative assistants, construction machine setters, marketing consultants and teacherds with annual incomes ranging from $21,00o0 to $111,000. Nationally, jobs in the cleanh energy industry grew at a rateof 9.1 percenr between 1998 and 2007, while total jobs grew by 3.7 percent in the same the report says. Floridas had 3,831 clean energy businesses at the endof 2007, a 22.7 percenty increase from 3,121 businesses in the report says.
There were 236 clean energy patents in Floridaq between 1999 and and venture capital firmsinvested $117 in clean technologu in Florida between 2006 and 2008.