solar energy facts 2009
In what has to be the best news of the new century, renewable energy sources like solar, wind and biofuels, the UN came out with a new report on June 4 show that, for the first time in history, investing in renewable energy investment exceeded fossil fuels, with Based on data from 2008. This is surprising given the fact that the abysmal economy, 2008 was registered in the general population to cover operating and renewable energy stocks, with double-digit losses in some cases. In fact, according to a report of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which follows the highs and lows of 88 populations around the world clean energy, "green" energy plummeted from January to November 2008 more of 70 percent.
Fortunately, President Barack Obama's focus on renewable energy technologies, and recent incentives, such as the Department of Energy supply of 107.6 million U.S. dollars in the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the improvement of solar technologies, renewable resources sent again in 2009, recovering 45 percent of its value, according to New Energy Finance, which prepared the report for the UN.
Hearing the good news, Achin Steiner Environment executive director of the United Nations, said that the figures are a "clear indication" that renewable energy technologies have come at this turning-point in which to be as important as or more important than coal, oil and gas.
The major investment banks to countries developing countries like China and India, but smaller countries like Kenya and Angola, also saw its fair share of the profits.
The big winners were solar (to 33.5 billion U.S. dollars) and wind (at about $ 52 billion), biofuels take a back seat at about $ 17 million as a result of being involved in 2007 and 2008 in national and global food-price increases.
Europe was the biggest winner, with $ 50 million invested in projects in five countries (Spain, Germany, Britain, France and Denmark), while the U.S. fell 8 percent of their huge profits of energy renewable 2007, which saw solar stocks jump more than 150 percent of its pre-recession value.
To the credit of the United States, however, a report early in the week showed laboratories in America the world leader in advanced technologies of renewable energy and environmental research.
The study focused on 3,000 research institutions and universities around the world, and saw NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the leader in cell Solar from 2003 to 2007.
Other, less surprising winners including Harvard, Caltech and the U.S. Department of Energy from renewable energy laboratory (NREL) in Colorado. A surprise winner in the category of fuel cells was at Penn State.
Altogether, nine U.S. laboratories or schools placed among the Top 25 world ranking. But James Pringle, Thomson Reuters, warned that this type of analysis can be misleading, adding that no single publication has the last word on the entities that have shown that increased competition in their fields.
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