Wind, solar energy, bio-fuels to double by 2020, the report says-CNET (blog)

Global wind, solar and biofuels industries are projected to double within ten years, according to reports this week released an energy research firm clean edge.

The 22stránky message, the "clean energy trends 2011" (PDF, registration required), has a number of interesting data.

Specifically, the most recent report on global biofuels industry valuates 56.4 billion dollars by 2010, and predicts that rises to 112.8 billion dollars in the year 2020. It assesses the global wind energy 60.5 billion dollars by 2010, increase 122.9 billion dollars in the year 2020. Meanwhile, the global solar industry is located on the Lesotho billion dollars by 2010, increase 113.6 billion dollars in the year 2020.

The report also contains a review of the facts in the last ten years. In the US, for example, was less than 10 thousand hybrid vehicles on the road in 2000, compared with more than 1.4 million hybrid vehicles in 2010. In 2000, the proportion of US venture capital on the clean tech 1,2 percent, compared with more than 23 percent in 2010.

Someone should pay attention to this tech analyst whose sponsors include companies with ties to the energy industry? Yes and no.

Clean edge has been tracking data and the release of the reports on these and related industry for ten years and has some really good predictions. They have failed you, only in the event that you consider that some of the company's previous forecasts had been on the conservative side.

Its 2001 report, for example, the predicted main alternative energy industry would grow from $ 7 billion in 2000 to more than $ 82 billion by 2010. On the market and just adding up the current wind, solar and biofuels Awards clean edges, and not including the other industrial sectors such as geothermal and tidal wave energy clearly exceeded.

In its report for the year 2003 net edge also predicted that wind energy will grow by more than $ 49 billion in 2012, and that is 60.5 billion dollars for the year 2010.

Clean energy trends 2011 sponsors messages include Autodesk, Cascadia capital, Deloitte, E2 search .org, employees and attorneys Hobbs Towne Mintz Levin and Stoel Rives.

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