Sacramento clean tech booms

Quick blurb in today's Sacramento Press referencing the Sacramento region as California's fastest growing clean-tech economy. Quick excerpt:

Sacramento led the state in green job growth in 2008, with an increase in green jobs of 87% between 1995 and 2008, reports Many Shades of Green: Diversity and Distribution of California’s Green Jobs

... SARTA’s CleanStart program identified 98 companies in the region engaged in the clean tech sector for 2009; twenty of these companies were new to the list. The clean-tech companies in the region include three publically traded companies: Solar Power Inc. (SOPW.OB), Octus Energy (OCTI.OB) and Pacific Ethanol (PEIX).

Solid validation -- sans pom-pom waving -- for California's Capital Region, anchored and amplified by the pragmatic work of UC Davis and its Energy Efficiency Center, California Lighting Technology Center, and Western Cooling Efficiency Center. California has led the world in energy efficiency and alternative energy innovation, and the Sacramento region (catapulted by UC Davis) is leading the charge.