Clean Energy Trends, 2005

My colleagues at Clean Edge and I have just released our annual Clean Energy Trends report. It offers ten-year projections for key clean-energy markets, examines factors that are influencing clean-energy markets and venture investments, and offers five trends we find noteworthy.

The free, downloadable (PDF) report finds that markets for solar energy, wind energy, and fuel cells are poised to grow from $16 billion in global revenues in 2004 to more than $100 billion by 2014. Specifically, Clean Edge projects that:

markets for solar photovoltaics (modules, system components, and installations) will grow from $7.2 billion in 2004 to $39.2 billion by 2014;

wind power installations will expand from $8 billion last year to $48.1 billion in 2014; and

fuel cells and distributed hydrogen will grow from $900 million to $15.1 billion over the next decade.

In collaboration with Nth Power, a leading energy-tech venture firm, the report analyzes energy-tech venture investments. This year’s findings show that venture capital (VC) investments in U.S.-based energy-tech companies increased from $509 million in 2003 to $520 million in 2004. These investments, primarily in distributed energy sources, energy intelligence, power reliability, and related services, represented nearly 3% of total VC investments in the U.S. in 2004.

And the five "trends to watch":

the growth of fuels from biomass in the U.S. and Europe

the growth of energy efficiency due to high energy prices

the resurgence of electricity generated by concentrated solar power stations

the emergence of the hydrogen infrastructure

how the growth of green buildings is stimulating markets for new products and technologies

Please check it out, and let me know what you think.

Comments

[Jamais Cascio]

Joel, the link to the PDF from the Clean Edge site fails. It asks for my contact info, then redirects me to a download page that 404s.