Global investment in renewable energies in the first quarter of this year plummeted a whopping 22%, falling to $40 billion, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance here.
The consequences for many companies and their employees of course will be calamitous to say the least. So many employees had been given the false promise of green jobs. Now, as governments are realizing that green energies are enormously expensive, and man-made climate change is over-hyped, subsidies are being slashed.
On their own, renewable energies are unable to compete and investors are turning their backs.
Green investment plummets 96% in Spain
Ironically, the hardest hit country was Spain, writes gstriatum.com. In the first quarter of 2013 Spain saw almost all of its investment in renewable energies evaporate, plummeting a mind-numbing 96%. President Obama once touted Spain as a shining example of green economy success, see here and here. Clearly Obama’s energy advisers had no clue about the complete lack of viability of renewable energies and have left the President standing embarrassed.
France and Italy have also been hard hit.
Michael Liebreich, Chief of Bloomberg New Energy: “For investment in clean energy to play its role in stemming the growth in world emissions, we would need to see investment levels at least double by 2020, rather than fall.”
What Liebreich really means here is: If countries cannot even afford the current level, then doubling the investment is completely out of the question. Expect green energy to die on the vine. The boom is over.
Bloomberg blames the collapsing investment on the uncertain political conditions in key markets like USA and Germany. Clearly the two countries are thinking twice about following Spain’s footsteps.
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It may be that the figures quoted are accurate &/or true – but I’m not sure I’d rely on the website in question. Check for another source (and one which does not rely upon this particular site). The first paragraph is largely incoherent and includes the following sentence:
“But: Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria is absorbed defoliating Daisy net balance”
Hmmm….
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Investing in “green” energy has played a significant part in the debt crisis of EU nations but the EU still intends to continue.
Unfortunately for the EU’s overriding political agenda on climate change most of the EU nations cannot or simply will not continue down the renewable path.
Even Germany intends substantial coal fired power to replace its intention to wind back nuclear.
If Germany prices its industrial power house out of competitiveness the whole EU will collapse and it is in danger of achieving that.