Report: Ohio logs gain in clean energy jobs

Business First of Columbus

Dayton Business Journal

Friday, June 12, 2009

 

 

Jobs in Ohio’s clean energy economy grew 7.3 percent while overall jobs declined 2.2 percent in the state between 1998 and 2007, according to new research by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

 

Ohio was part of a national trend that saw job growth in the clean energy economy outperforming overall job growth in 38 states and the District of Columbia between 1998 and 2007. Nationally, jobs in the clean energy economy grew at a rate of 9.1 percent while total jobs grew by only 3.7 percent over the same period...

 

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In 2007, there were more than 35,250 jobs in Ohio’s clean energy economy – about the same as at Wal-Mart, the state’s largest employer.

 

Eh, that is such a sad statement...Really, wal-mart?

From the Cleveland PD:

 

 

Jobs in green industries in Ohio grew at fourth-highest rate in U.S., study say

by Frank Bentayou/Plain Dealer Reporter

Friday June 12, 2009, 12:09 PM

Updated at 5:03 p.m.

 

CLEVELAND -- While Ohio has lost industrial jobs for years, employment at businesses focused on conservation and alternative energy grew here by the fourth-highest margin of any state in the nation through 2007, according to a study a nonprofit group released Friday.

 

The report, prepared by Pew Charitable Trusts and its environmental group, also put the state at the sixth spot nationally as of 2007 in terms of green businesses launched. And it pegged Ohio as No. 17 in venture capital investments in green technology between 2006 and 2008, an index of how much money channeled into new environmental business creation.

 

 

More at Cleveland.com http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/06/green_economy_growing_in_ohio.html