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April 2007 According to a study, eco-industry in Germany will employ more people in 2020 than the country's traditional leading industries, machine building and car manufacturing. Torsten Henzelmann of the strategy consultants Roland Berger says that in a few years eco- business will be making more money than both sectors put together. ¬Source: dpa, 10.04.2007 The PV sector in Germany achieved sales totalling EUR 3.7 billion ¬Source: BSW / www.solarwirtschaft.de January 2007 Worldwide growth of PV production was 41% per annum from 2000- 2005 ¬Source: refocus Nov./ Dez. 2006, S. 32 November 2006 Even 110.000 tons of solar grade silicon in 2010 will not be able to satisfy demand! ¬Source: Photon Consulting Prognose aus Photon 2/2007, S. 35 February 2007 Climate change to cost Germany 800 Billion Euro until 2050. " We need an energy revolution", says Claudia Kemfert from DIW (German Institute for Economic Research). ¬Source: Washington, AFP 15.03.2007 March 2007 EU aims at 20% renewable energy in 2020. ¬Source: dpa 08. 03. 2007 March 2007 According to the German environment secretary, Sigmar Gabriel, Germany should obtain 27 % of its energy from renewable sources until 2020. Althogether there are now 214.000 people working in the sector of renewable energy in the country. ¬Source: Badische Zeitung 28. 02. 2007 February 2007 US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration states that winter 2006/2007 was the warmest since the start of weather records in 1880. ¬Source: Washington, AFP 16.03.2007 March 2007 In 2006 2.54 GW solar cells have been produced worldwide. This represents an impressive 40-percent growth. This year a growth of 55 percent is expected. ¬Source: Photon, 02.04.2007 April 2007 PV industry competes with the semiconductor industry for silicon feedstocks. Therefore it is not enough high-grade silicon available to fulfil production lines for solar cells. Some production lines are working at only 60% capacity. ¬Source: renewable energy focus, July/August 2007 August 2007 US Department of Energy offers $168.3 million to PV industry. Goal is to enable 2.85 GW of PV production capacity in the US by 2010. ¬Source: Photon International, Nr. 4 / 2007 May 2007 Over the first quarter of 2007, the six renewable energy funds increased their value by more than one quarter to 3.3 Billion Euros. ¬Source: ECOreporter.de, Dortmund 04.06.2007 June 2007 According to the study "Energie 2020", conducted by the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VdE), the amount of energy generated by means of renewable sources will increase by 57 % in the next 25 years. We are looking at an industry which has doubled its global sales from 30 to 60 billion euros in just seven years. By 2020, the renewable energies market is expected to explode to even 400 billion euros. ¬Source: www.sonnenseite.com, 11.07.2007 July 2007 Total sales of renewable energies increased in Germany by 19.3% to 21.6 billion Euros in 2006. The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) is expecting a further growth of 17% to 32 billion Euros in 2007. ¬Source: AP, 14.08.2007 August 2007 Potential of solar power is still underestimated, say experts: In 2007 solar cells and moduls will be produced with a capacity of 4 Gigawatt (GW) worldwide. Not much, compared to a globally installed electricity capacity of over 4.000 GW. But production of cells and moduls will rise to 20 GW by 2011. ¬Source: Photon International, No. 8 / 2007 August 2007 |