Renewable power generation industry quotes
"Investment in utility-scale renewable generation will exceed 50 billion Euros by 2011, excluding large hydro. Europe's top-20 utilities plan to double their renewables' capacity in the next five years and have already earmarked over 19 billion Euros solely for renewable energy projects." Alex Klein, EER
"2005 represented the eighth consecutive year that the PV industry¿s global production grew by 30% or more. Despite predictions of a slowdown, world PV cell and module production increased to 1,759 MW in 2005, a rise of 47% on the previous year." Paul Maycock, Prometheus Institute
"Over 2,700 biogas plants were in operation in Germany at the end of 2005, with a combined capacity of 660 MW. 700 of these were built during 2005, During 2006, an additional 1,000 plants are being constructed or are due for construction. By 2020 this could rise dramatically to 42,000 plants and 8,500 MW capacity." German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE)
"Spain has set a target of 500 MW of solar thermal generation capacity by 2010. At least ten countries have large-scale concentrating solar thermal power generation projects under construction or in the pipeline." Alex Klein, EER
"A great deal is expected of biomass if Europe is to meet its targets, which include an increase in the share of renewables to meet 12% of gross inland energy consumption, and a market share of 5.75% for transport biofuels by 2010. Achieving those targets requires an extra 74 Mtoe to come from the biomass sector by 2010." Manfred Bächler