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As Investment in Clean Energy Rises, Muddling Through is the Only Way Forward

Forbes -- Pike Research’s Smart Energy Annual Report 2012,released last week, estimated total revenue from smart energy and smart energy storage at $222 billion in 2011. By 2015, that figure will reach $420 billion – nearly doubling in 5 years.

That actually understates the case, if you refer to Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2012, which was released earlier this year by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), based on data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Global investment in clean energy hit a record $260 billion in 2011, the UNEP report stated. The difference, while not small – $38 billion – is mostly related to the definitions of “revenue” and “investment.” However you slice it, that’s a big pile of change. And the UNEP report contains some other data worth consider

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Submitted Jun 16, 2012 By: dgerst

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