Combined, they are accelerating the growth of technologies, companies, and markets faster than even many optimists might have imagined. These potent forces have moved clean energy from the fringes to the mainstream, and created dynamic new markets in some regions. We refer to them as the “Six Cs”: Cost, Capital, Competition, Consumers, China, and Climate. In corporate boardrooms, it is fast becoming an imperative.Īs we highlight in our forthcoming book, The Clean-Tech Revolution, co-authored by Clean Edge’s Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder (to be published by Collins in June 2007), six key forces are rapidly reshaping the global energy landscape. In Washington and other capitals, clean energy is now a bipartisan issue. That acceptance of climate change as “real” helped to unlock latent interest in clean-energy technologies on the part of corporate and political leaders. Two thousand and six also marked the year that even the most ardent naysayers about global climate change began to change their tune - and scientists, investors, business leaders, and politicians moved the conversation from whether climate change was occurring to what we are going to do about it. Clean-energy investing has now become accessible to the mainstream. One indicator: There are now a half-dozen stock indexes tracking the clean-energy sector in North America, including WilderHill’s ECO, Ardour Capital’s AGINA, and Clean Edge’s own CELS and CLEN indexes. politicians at the regional, state, and federal levels and significant corporate investments in cleanenergy acquisitions and expansion initiatives. to more than $2.4 billion a new level of commitment by U.S. These include a near tripling in venture investments in energy technologies in the U.S.
We forecast that they will continue on this trajectory to become a $226 billion market by 2016.Ī number of developments put clean energy definitively on the map over the past year. Annual revenue for these four technologies ramped up nearly 39% in one year - from $40 billion in 2005 to $55 billion in 2006. In this, our sixth edition, we find markets for our four benchmark technologies - solar photovoltaics, wind power, biofuels, and fuel cells - continuing their healthy climb. Since the publication of our first Clean Energy Trends report in 2002, we’ve provided an annual snapshot of both the global and U.S.
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This appears to be the future of clean energy: a rolling series of technology breakthroughs, landmark corporate investments, industry consolidation, and the not-infrequent emergence of new and sometimes surprising players entering the field. Each year, it seems, brings an ever-higher plateau of success. We have reached the point where the steady and rapid growth of clean energy has become an old story. More than likely, it was both of these, among several other factors, that pushed markets for solar, wind, fuel cells, biofuels, and other energy technologies along their inexorable upward march. Maybe it was the changing global climate, or perhaps the changing business climate, that fueled clean-energy markets in 2006.
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To read the full report, please download the PDF file by clicking on the link to the left. The following is an excerpt from Clean-Energy Trends 2007.
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