USA:

Geothermal Jobs Have a Strong Start to the Year (Natural Resources Defense Council)

Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) reports that nearly 5,600 clean energy and clean transportation jobs were announced throughout the U.S. in the first quarter of 2014, a significant decline from the previous two quarters.

However, geothermal had one of its strongest showings since E2 began tracking job announcements in 2011. E2 tracked more than 1,000 job announcements from the geothermal sector in Q1, which came in third overall behind solar and wind, which were in a virtual tie at the top spot with each sector bringing forth as many as 1,600 jobs each.

Idaho took the overall number one spot among states thanks to 800 planned jobs from Aguacaliente’s 25 MW geothermal project announcement near the town of Malta.

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