Thursday, December 22, 2011

How much money was invested in renewable energy globally in 2010?

Global investment in renewable energy was $195 billion USD ($195,000,000,000.00) in 2010 and is expected to more than double to $395 billion USD ($395,000,000,000.00) in 2020. With numbers like that is seems increasing difficult to classify renewable energy as "alternative". There was not a Birkenstock in site at the last industry conference I attended...

Source of figures: Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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