REN21 yesterday released its annual publication, the Renewables 2010 Global Status Report, together with its twin report – UNEP’s annual Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010. In 2009, for the second year in a row, both the US and Europe added more power capacity from renewable sources such as wind and solar than conventional [...]

In the last decade hundreds of policies promoting renewable energies have been created worldwide. One of the greatest RE success stories is the worldwide deployment of feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for electricity from renewable sources. Only ten years ago not more than 13 countries had enacted FiTs (see REN21 Global Status Report 2007) while today at least [...]

Today our colleagues from REN21 released the “Renewables Global Status Report 2009” which shows, that the fundamental transition of the world’s energy markets continues.
“This fourth edition of REN21’s renewable energy report comes in the midst of an historic and global economic crisis,” says Mohamed El-Ashry, chairman of REN21. Although the future is unclear, he says, [...]