Thursday, February 5, 2015

USA:

An Illustrated Guide to the State of America’s Clean Energy Sector (greentechmedia)

The graphs below are just a few of hundreds of statistics outlined in Bloomberg New Energy Finance's sustainable energy fact book released this week. Below is a collection of data points from the report that provide insight into how renewable energy including geothermal fared in 2014. While the high-level numbers are positive, sectors outside wind and solar have generally struggled to get beyond incremental growth.

Wind and solar have dominated new renewable capacity additions, while other sectors have seen incremental or no growth.
Long lead times and tax credit uncertainty continue to plague geothermal, which only saw two projects commissioned last year.


America is seeing early signs of a low-carbon transition. But when considering trends sector by sector, it's clear that the growth still isn't all that diverse -- it's largely limited to natural gas, wind and solar.