Global trends in renewable energy investment

Aug. 10, 2011 - PRLog -- The growing presence of Smart Grid technologies is increasingly enabling new solutions and policies that encourage energy storage markets. Opportunities for investment globally seem to be multiplying all the time and one area particularly in focus is the role that energy storage will play in the future of green energy, which itself is a sector that has seen phenomenal growth in recent times. A report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), published on July 7th 2011, revealed that in the past year investors had put an estimated $211 billion (£129 billion) into renewable sources including solar, wind, hyrdo and geothermal energy. This represents an increase of around a third from the $160 billion invested in 2009, not to mention a figure more than five times higher than levels of investment in 2004.

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