Clean-energy companies fueling a N. Colorado revival

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Clean-energy companies fueling a N. Colorado revival

Business and academic leaders sound off on how they're trying to make the area a hub of alternative-power development.

By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated:02/09/2008 02:00:41 PM MST

Fueled by a surge of clean-energy projects and research, the northern Colorado economy is regaining some of its lost strength.

The state's fledgling "new energy economy" is gaining an impressive foothold on the plains of Weld County, along the Interstate 25 commercial corridor and in the research labs of Colorado State University.

More than 40 businesses involved in clean or renewable energy have set up shop in the region in recent years, bringing more than 1,300 jobs. Other shops such as Woodward Governor Co., which makes components for power-generation equipment, also have added jobs.

The gains fall short of making up for the more than 4,000 high-tech jobs northern Colorado lost earlier this decade in a devastating round of layoffs by Agilent Technologies, Advanced Energy, Celestica, Hewlett-Packard and LSI Logic. But regional officials say they're optimistic that projected growth in the alternative-energy sector will generate thousands of relatively high-paying new jobs.

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1. this is incredible news. go Colorado! nt