Renewable Distributed Energy Generation Market Predicted To Triple

Posted by weijing3333 on June 2nd, 2015

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The global electric power industry is evolving from a financial and engineering model that relies on large centralized power plants owned by the utilities to one that is more diverse in both sources of generation and ownership of the generation assets, according to a new report from Pike Research.Renewable distributed energy generation (RDEG), which includes both distributed solar photovoltaics and small wind power, is an emerging mode of operations that is a growing alternative to the traditional centralized power generation infrastructure.

According to Pike Research, the RDEG market will experience strong growth over the next several years, with total system revenues increasing from .8 billion in 2009 to 4.7 billion by 2015.During this period, the cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that annual RDEG capacity additions will increase from 5.9 GW in 2009 to 15.1 GW in 2015."The economics of sub-utility-scale renewable energy continue to improve at a rapid pace," says senior analyst Peter Asmus.

"This downward price curve is fueling demand for distributed solar PV and small wind systems as an alternative to centralized power generation. But the transition to a more distributed system is no small matter, and it requires the evolution of policies, technologies and business models."Although RDEG currently represents a very small part of the global electric power generation capacity - just 0.2% - it has the potential to play a much larger role in the future, Asmus says. Europe and the U.S. are the largest markets for RDEG today, but China and India are huge potential markets.Pike Research anticipates that Europe will continue to be the largest market for RDEG during the 2010-2015 forecast period, but China will see the largest market growth as the cost of renewable energy approaches that of conventional energy.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a paper titled "Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy," a policy roadmap for a national energy reform plan designed to reduce the cost of clean energy deployment, create jobs and enhance American economic competitiveness in 2011.Co-written with the Coalition for Green Capital, this effort, known as Project 2011, recognizes the historic opportunity faced by the 112th Congress to make great strides in economic development and job creation through investment in clean energy deployment.

To harness the power of both public-policy innovation and private-sector investment, the effort tees up a framework policy debate in the coming year.The proposal focuses on policy incentives to reduce the cost of capital for clean energy projects, regulatory reform to increase demand for clean energy and create greater financial predictability, and new competitive regional infrastructure to ensure sustained economic development.Specifically, Project 2011 proposes clean energy innovation policies that would do the following:

Create a nonprofit lending institution, the Energy Independence Trust, that could borrow money from the U.S. Treasury, as well as the private sector, to address the access to capital challenges that face U.S. clean energy firms and hamper their international competitiveness;Propose tax policies and streamlined incentives to help bolster market demand; andReform market regulations to remove barriers to entry in the clean energy sector, to create more certainty and predictability for clean energy investment.
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