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study said Florida was one of 38 state and the District of Columbia in which job growth in the cleahn energy economy outperformed overall job Pew defined a clean energy economty as one thatgenerates jobs, businesses and investmentsz while expanding clean energy increasing energy efficiency, reducinb greenhouse gas emissions, waste and pollution, and conservintg water and other natural In Florida, there was a 7.9 perceng increase in clean energy jobs from 28,845 jobs in 1998 to 31,122 jobs in 2007.
The numbers are a hard coun t ofactual jobs, Pew said in a release, and range from jobs as diversde as engineers, plumbers, administrative assistants, construction workers, machine setters, marketing consultant s and teachers with annual incomes ranging from $21,000 to $111,000. Nationally, jobs in the clea energy industry grew at a rateof 9.1 percent between 1998 and while total jobs grew by 3.7 percent in the same the report says. Florida had 3,831 cleanb energy businesses at the end of a 22.7 percent increase from 3,121 businesses in the report says.
There were 236 clean energy patents in Florida betweenb 1999and 2008, and venture capitall firms invested $117 in clean technology in Florida betweejn 2006 and 2008.
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