According to the headquarters in Portland, Oregon, United States Clean Edge Research's latest research report, despite the lower prices prompted the 2012 global PV installed capacity of a record reached 30.9GW entire PV industry sales are down 19% to $ 79.7 billion.
According to the report, Clean Energy Trends 2013 report shows, the PV industry revenue in 2012 is a self-tracking photovoltaic industry fell for the first time since 12 years. However, the report said, the photovoltaic industry still gave birth to a number of positive trends, such as large-scale investors to enter the photovoltaic industry and service sectors in the small solar panels energy industry to sustainable development.
The Clean Edge founder and chairman RonPernic said: "In view of the risk investors pulled out of the photovoltaic industry, many companies caught in the mire of bankruptcy and climate storms frequently struck, clean energy to return to the public eye in 2012, the clean energy market is full of uncertainty "From last year, we can draw an important lesson: For investors with short-and medium-term development of the industry should deploy in advance."
PV industry sales in 2022 is expected to increase to $ 124 billion, according to Clean Edge calculated PV solar module installations global average price from $ 7.00 per watt in 2008 fell to $ 2.58 per watt. The agency predicted that prices will continue to fall further, but the PV industry sales in 2022 will increase to $ 124 billion. The report said that the influx of the solar industry continues to expand the scale of "big money".
For example, Warren Buffett (Warren Buffett)'s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (Mid American Energy Holdings Company) acquired a sun power company projects a cost of $ 2,000,000,000. The report revealed that in 2012 the total amount of investment in clean energy fell 11%, to $ 269 billion, which decreased to 19% in the amount of U.S. venture capital accounted for.
Renewable energy projects accounted for a greater share of the new project report covers a variety of renewable energy technologies, and pointed out that the greater share of renewable energy projects accounted for a new project. New generating projects 2012, renewable energy projects accounted for nearly half, of which the largest proportion of wind energy projects. Europe accounted for 37% of the total generating capacity of photovoltaic capacity.