Renewable Energy: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Renewable Energy: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Renewable Energy industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
• Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies
• Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
• Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).
• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global renewable energy market grew by 6.8% in 2010 to reach a value of $322.5 billion.

In 2015, the global renewable energy market is forecast to have a value of $479.9 billion, an increase of 48.8% since 2010.

The global renewable energy market grew by 3.7% in 2010 to reach a volume of 3,340.4 billion kWh.

In 2015, the global renewable energy market is forecast to have a volume of 4,203.6 billion kWh, an increase of 25.8% since 2010.

Market segmentation

Americas accounts for 47.5% of the global renewable energy market value.

For most countries, fossil fuel or nuclear dominates their power generation mix.

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Market Definition

The renewable energy market consists of the consumption of electricity generated via Geothermal, Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric means, as well as through wood and waste combustion. Data are reported as net consumption as opposed to gross consumption. Net consumption excludes the energy consumed by the generating units. The volume of the market is calculated as the volume of electricity consumed (in billions of kilowatt hours, kWh), and the market value has been calculated according to average annual renewable electricity prices. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.