Clean Energy Trends

Scientists, investors, business leaders, and politicians moved the agenda from whether climate change was occurring to what should be done about it.

The acceptance of climate change as “real” helped to unlock latent interest in clean energy technologies on the part of corporate and political leaders.

[2] And clean energy markets are growing: Clean Energy Trends 2007 shows markets for four benchmark technologies — solar photovoltaics, wind power, biofuels, and fuel cells — continuing their steady climb.

Clean Edge forecasts that this trajectory will continue to become a $226 billion market by 2016.

[4] Several developments have helped to strengthen clean energy markets in 2007: