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Report Suggests The World Is Finally Producing Renewable Energy At A Global Scale

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">According to a United Nations Environment Programme report released in March by Frankfurt School UNEP Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance&comma; renewables are becoming an important global source of power&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Through quick expansion in developing countries&comma; new <span style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;">builds<&sol;span> of carbon-free renewable power plants in 2014 eclipsed 100&comma;000 megawatts of capacity for the first time ever&comma; according to the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment Report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Renewable energy now appears to be entering the market at a scale that is important in energy industry terms and at a cost that competes with fossil fuels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Renewables like wind&comma; biomass and solar created around 9&period;1&percnt; of the world’s electricity in 2014&comma; growing from 8&period;5&percnt; in 2013&period; These made up most of new power capacity throughout Europe and also provided electricity to new markets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1440" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;Report-Suggests-The-World-Is-Finally-Producing-Renewable-Energy-At-A-Global-Scale&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Report Suggests The World Is Finally Producing Renewable Energy At A Global Scale" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Some experts still predict that fossil fuels will supply most of our energy for further decades&comma; but evidence suggest otherwise&period; As the Global Trends report explains&comma; the clean energy investment that financed almost half of all new power plants in 2014 came at quite a bad time for renewables&period; As oil prices were decreasing and China’s consumption of coal was falling&comma; both assets were more economically suitable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In developing countries&comma; clean energy investment rose 36&percnt; to &dollar;13bn&period; It’s on the right track to eclipse investment in developing countries&comma; which added up to &dollar;139bn last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In terms of investment&comma; China led with &dollar;83bn in clean energy funding&comma; but lots of other countries weren’t far behind&period; A lot of the countries with the most potential&comma; such as India&comma; South Africa and Brazil are believed to lead the way&period; Kenya also has one of the biggest solar rooftop systems across the whole of Africa and the largest wind farm&comma; which comes as a surprise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It’s a tough task to emphasise how big and impressive this change is&period; In the early years of this century&comma; it was hard to think that between 2004 and 2011&comma; 70&percnt; of new power capacity added in Europe would originate from renewable energy sources&period; Along with that&comma; the 100&comma;000 megawatts of renewable capacity that were calculated around the world in 2014 are comparable to the overall installed nuclear power capacity in the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In some respect&comma; comparing the scope of US nuclear installations to renewable installations worldwide doesn’t seem correct&period; While you can compare the capacities&comma; you cannot compare the overall energy generation&comma; although it’s clear that we’re finally producing renewable energy at a global scale&period; You can find this in Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance 2030 Market Outlook&semi; it predicts the capacity of new renewable installations&comma; including large scale hydro which could over the next 15 years surpass that of newer fossil fuel power plants by as much as three times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Quite &comma;literally providing the link between old and new energy production is Global Marine Systems Limited&comma; who are the world leader in providing subsea installation and maintenance company around the globe&period; Visit our website for more information on how we can help you with your next project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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