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Jun 11, 2009

AVALANCHE-JOURNAL: Study shows Texas among nation’s leaders in green energy economies

By Elliott Blackburn | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Story last updated at 6/11/2009 - 1:11 am

Texas has one of the country's largest single-state green energy economies, but other states are catching up, according to a new study by a national research group.

The Lone Star state boasts wind energy resources larger than most nations and added more than twice the green energy jobs than other jobs over the last decade, according to a yearlong study by the PEW charitable trusts.

But states like Colorado were gaining at a brisk pace, according to the study.
Texas ranked second in 2007 for jobs - 7 percent of all U.S. green jobs - and fourth in patents tied to clean energy, according to the study.

The state also boasted the third highest venture capital investment for green energy fields between 2006 and 2008, according to the study.

But Texas trailed up-and-comers like Colorado and Tennessee in job growth between 1998 and 2007. And much of the state's job growth had little to do with the iconic wind turbines sprouting along West Texas mesas and highways.

Almost three-quarters of the clean energy jobs recorded by the charitable trust involved conservation and pollution mitigation - workers responsible for recycling, water conservation and handling greenhouse emissions and other pollutants.

Businesses and jobs that develop clean energy accounted for just 6.3 percent of the state's job portfolio.

Those numbers could pick up now that the state has chosen where to run the massive infrastructure required to fetch wind energy from the Panhandle and send it to the rest of the state, said Eric Bearse, spokesman for the Wind Coalition.

Investment in projects that follow the new power grid could triple the amount of wind energy produced in the state.

"Any slowdown in terms of job growth related to wind was, frankly, expected," Bearse said. "The long term picture remains quite good."

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Alright! Way to go Texas! Everybody should follow Texas’ example and start going green.
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