A new Clean Energy Trends report has just been released from Clean Edge. The aggregate figures are shwon below.
Interestingly, these three main areas considered in the report are still all roughly equal in size. As expected, solar saw some very healthy growth – a $20.4bn dollar increase in market size from 2010 to 2011, due to generous government incentives gaining popularity and a rapidly expanding manufacturing base in China and the US. All three industries rose collectively from $188.1 billion to $246.1 billion from 2010 to 2011. Much of this increase is due to venture capital investments, which from the US alone rose from just over $5bn in 2010 to $6.6bn across these industries last year, and – most impressively – this meant that relative to other industries, these three renewable areas received more venture capital funding than any other at 23% of total venture capital activity.
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