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>> Betsy Sykes: WHAT WERE THE PARAMETERS OF THE CENSUS THIS YEAR AND HOW DID YOU TARGET
CENSUS PARTICIPANTS?
>> Paul Quinlan: Well, This is the fourth year we have conducted this annual study.
And what we are looking for is we did a renewable energy efficiency study. So it's a little
more focused than some green jobs studies, national green jobs studies that exist out
there. And what we look for is we look for companies that have 50 percent of their revenue
that comes from renewable energy or energy efficiency activities or 50 percent of their
staff time goes to renewable energy or energy efficiency work or that there's 25,000 in
economic gain or savings come from renewable energy or energy efficiency within the company.
We built the list over the last four years and it has over 1500 firms on it now of companies
that we believe to be in this workplace. And what we do each summer is we survey them first
through a online platform and have them sign in and take a survey and then we also do phone
banking and on the second half of the project. And that's how we target companies. It's a
continual list that we build and and maintain throughout the course of the year. At this
time we believe it's a robust list of who is in the marketplace and helps us track how
the marketplace is growing and expanding over time.