Featured in Brave new world – 01-2012

Pushing renewable investment

Emerging markets: 2011 may well have been characterized by a number of controversial issues, including declining module prices, insolvencies, production cutbacks, consolidation, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the U.S.-China trade dispute. However, not all is lost: while many of the traditional solar markets are suffering, a number of emerging markets are working hard to fill the void.

“A revolution is underway” in the renewable energy industry, Ernst & Young boldly asserts. According to its latest ‘Renewable energy attractiveness indices’, the balance of power is shifting from Western Europe and the U.S., to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, South East Asia and Latin America. The company explains that Western European countries, …

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