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The Clean Energy Economy



The Clean Energy Economy: Utah

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PRESS RELEASE: Utah Clean Energy Economy Has Driven Jobs, But Needs Policy Boost – Pew Charitable Trusts, June 10, 2009

Utah has a small piece of America's clean energy economy. It is one of the states where jobs in the clean energy economy declined between 1998 and 2007 while total jobs grew. But Utah has considerable native alternative energy resources in the form of natural gas, which it aims to develop. Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., has designated Highway 15, an interstate cutting through Utah, as a natural gas corridor and is pushing to expand the clean energy infrastructure with additional concentrated natural gas fueling stations.1 Despite the job losses in its clean energy economy, Utah attracted more than $26 million in clean technology venture capital during the past three years, most of which has been invested in the category of Energy Efficiency.

 

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