“Because of ongoing regulatory uncertainty and other energy sector trends, businesses held back investments that would likely have led to more hiring in the clean energy and energy efficiency sectors,” notes the report by Environmental Entrepreneurs, a non-partisan, not-for-profit clean energy business advocacy group known as E2.
Clean energy job announcements totaled 12,000 in first quarter 2013.
On the federal policy front, E2 cites the move to let the renewable electricity production tax credit and those supporting commercial and residential construction retrofits expire at the end of last year as hurting sector job creation.
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