Salient to Investors: The average analyst expects new solar generation capacity to rise 14 percent in 2013 to 34.1 gigawatts, equal to 8 atomic reactors and versus 4.4 percent growth in 2012. BNEF says China will pass Germany as the largest solar market in 2013 after doubling its 2013 target for new projects in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Private equity companies and venture capitalists reduced renewable-energy investment to the lowest since 2006. Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures said all the fashionable VCs have exited, and the number of new businesses is smaller. Ethan Zindler at New Energy Finance said venture investors in early stages do
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: InsideClimateNews.org writes: In Phoenix, swimming pools outnumber solar panels by a thousand to one. Germany, with half the sunlight of Arizona, has four times as much solar power installed per capita. and 23 times more than the US. The primary reason for the renewable energy gulf between the US and Germany
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mark Muro at Brookings said the outcome of the election will have an influence on the pace of growth in clean-energy industries. Muro said clean energy, especially clean tech, are not large job creators because they’re relatively small and very efficient technologies – 184,699 workers in 2010 in clean technology. Ethan Pollack at
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