Bright Spots Of Solar Energy Cut Through The Clutter
The US developer Hecate has 11 gigawatts of solar energy and storage projects under its belt and 47 more gigawatts in its pipeline.
The US developer Hecate has 11 gigawatts of solar energy and storage projects under its belt and 47 more gigawatts in its pipeline.
The Canadian startup XlynX aims to improve perovskite solar cells with a new advanced adhesive.
London-based fund manager Glennmont Partners announced Tuesday that it had successfully raised €850 million ($957 million) during its Third Fund investing in clean energy infrastructure projects in Europe, the largest amount that has ever been raised for a green energy only fund with a European mandate.
Investments in wind and solar will need to reach $13 trillion over 30 years so as to reduce CO2 emissions by 64% in 2050 compared to current levels, according to a new report published this week by Dutch bank ING.
Though global clean energy investment again exceeded $300 billion for the fifth year in a row in 2018, it was nevertheless down on 2017 figures to $332.1 billion, hovering around the same mark as 2016 which was also down on the year previous.
One of the most important figures used to understand the impact and health of the clean energy sector is the amount of money invested into new clean energy each year, but what do we do when figures don’t seem to match up?
Total global energy investment fell by 2% in 2017, totaling $1.8 billion according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Investment 2018 report which was published this week, which also showed $750 billion was spent on the electricity sector, compared to only $715 billion on oil & gas supply, while investment in renewables and energy efficiency fell by 3%.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has published its latest clean energy investment figures for the first six months of 2018 which reached $138.2 billion, down only 1% on the same six months a year earlier in 2017, while investment in the second quarter actually increased compared to a year earlier.
After ten years of writing for CleanTechnica, Joshua S Hill takes a look back over the last decade in the clean technology industry to examine some of the biggest trends that have shaped the face of the industry.
Clean energy investment for the first quarter of 2018 was down 10% on the same period a year ago to $61.1 billion, according to new figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, but there were small highlights thanks primarily to emerging markets such as Morocco, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Mexico.