Green job growth p1 - Military Transition - Military Times EDGE

Manufacturing strongholds hardest hit by job losses years ago may now be poised for the biggest gains.

Michigan created a $2 billion fund using tobacco-settlement money to target four economic sectors, one being alternative energy, and Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. plans to spend more than $2.2 billion to expand solar operations there.

Denmark-based Vestas Wind Systems said it would invest $680 million in Colorado and employ as many as 2,450 people in the state by 2010. And Schott Solar Inc., a subsidiary of Schott AG of Germany, announced last year that it would build a $100 million photovoltaic production facility in Albuquerque, N.M.