Prepared for the Institute for Emerging Issues, August 2008
by Dr. Keith G. Debbage, GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellow, Institute for Emerging Issues and Professor of Urban Geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro


This report looks at the spatial distribution and economic magnitude of North Carolina's renewable energy supply chain in wind, solar, biomass and geothermal and identifies companies with the technical potential to enter the renewable energy market in North Carolina.

The report finds that North Carolina's potential new energy economy supply chain is a diverse and mature sector of the state economy comprising just over 1,300 firms and employing over 61,000 workers.

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