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study said Florida was one of 38 states and the Districtg of Columbia in which job growth in the cleah energy economy outperformed overalljob gains. Pew defined a cleam energy economy as one thatgenerates jobs, businessee and investments while expanding clean energy increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and pollution, and conservin water and other natural resources. In there was a 7.9 percent increase in clean energy jobsfrom 28,84t jobs in 1998 to 31,122 jobs in 2007.
The numbersd are a hard count of actual Pew said ina release, and rangs from jobs as diverse as engineers, plumbers, administrativ assistants, construction workers, machine setters, marketinfg consultants and teachers with annual incomes ranging from $21,00p0 to $111,000. Nationally, jobs in the clean energy industryh 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 clean energy businessesx at the end of a 22.7 percent increase from 3,121 businesses in 1998, the report says.
There were 236 cleahn energy patents in Florida between 1999and 2008, and venturs capital firms invested $117 in clean technology in Florida between 2006 and 2008.