Sorry, I simply don't call these "real" jobs if they require this market-distorting support. Isn't much different from this Obama cesspool of failure:
Evergreen Solar ($25 million)
SpectraWatt ($500,000)
Solyndra ($535 million)
Beacon Power ($43 million)
Nevada Geothermal ($99 million)
SunPower ($1.2 billion)
First Solar ($1.5 billion)
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($119 million)
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
Abound Solar ($400 million)
A123 Systems ($279 million)
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($1 million)
Johnson Controls ($299 million)
Schneider Electric ($86 million)
Brightsource ($1,600 million)
ECOtality ($126 million)
Raser Technologies ($33 million)
Energy Conversion Devices ($13 million)
Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)
Range Fuels ($80 million)
Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)
Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)
Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)
GreenVolts ($500,000)
Vestas ($50 million)
LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
Nordic Windpower ($16 million)
Navistar ($39 million)
Satcon ($3 million)
Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)
Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
Jobs are jobs, development assistance can come in the form of sales tax waivers, training, job services, which would never happen but for the expansion, so it doesn’t cost the state/local govts anything. In fact, they benefit from the multiplier effect these jobs have that would not otherwise exist.