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– Solar, 4 March <strong>2013</strong>; MERCOM Capital Group, “Global Solar<br />

Forecast – Looking at Another Year of Steady Growth,” Market<br />

Intelligence Report – Solar, 11 March <strong>2013</strong>; Ucilia Wang, “Here<br />

Comes Another Solar Trade Dispute,” RenewableEnergyWorld.<br />

com, 7 February <strong>2013</strong>; “China Launches WTO Challenge to U.S.<br />

Anti-Subsidy Tariffs,” Reuters, 17 September 2012; Doug Palmer,<br />

“U.S. Slaps Duties on China Wind Towers, High-Level Talks Begin,”<br />

Reuters, 19 December 2012. For details and references regarding<br />

challenges and impacts on individual industries, see Market and<br />

Industry Trends by Technology section.<br />

12 See, for example, Sarasin, Working Towards a Cleaner and Smarter<br />

Power Supply: Prospects for Renewables in the Energy Revolution<br />

(Basel, Switzerland: December 2012), Bärbel Epp, “Solar Industry<br />

in Upheaval,” Sun & Wind Energy, December 2012, pp. 28–39;<br />

Ucilia Wang, “No End In Sight? The Struggle of Solar Equipment<br />

Makers,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 30 November 2012;<br />

Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 5; Ernst & Young, Renewable<br />

Energy Country Attractiveness Indices, 2012, at www.ey.com.<br />

13 See, for example, Vince Font, “A Look Back at Solar Energy in<br />

2012,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 19 December 2012; Jeremy<br />

Bowden, “PV Policy and Markets – Impact of US Tariffs on LCOE,”<br />

Renewable Energy World, November–December 2012, p. 7; James<br />

Montgomery, “Third-Party Residential Solar Surging in California;<br />

Nearly a Billion-Dollar Business,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com,<br />

15 February <strong>2013</strong>; Ryan Hubbell et al., Renewable Energy Finance<br />

Tracking Initiative (REFTI) Solar Tracking Analysis (Golden, CO:<br />

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department<br />

of Energy, September 2012), p. 18; slowing growth in established<br />

markets also from Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 5; information<br />

also from Scott Sklar, Stella Group, personal communication<br />

with <strong>REN21</strong>, 20 February <strong>2013</strong>.<br />

14 Louise Downing, “Renewable Energy Investment Falls 20 Percent<br />

as Wind Financings Decline,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 9<br />

October 2012; Frankfurt School – UNEP Centre for Climate &<br />

Sustainable Energy Finance (FS–UNEP) and Bloomberg New<br />

Energy Finance (BNEF), Global Trends in Renewable Energy<br />

Investment <strong>2013</strong> (Frankfurt: <strong>2013</strong>). See also Sections 2, 3, and 5<br />

in this report. Sidebar 2 is based on the following sources: solar<br />

conditions in Southern and North Africa, potential for geothermal<br />

energy, and expansion of geothermal from Ben Block, “African<br />

Renewable Energy Gains Attention,” Worldwatch Institute, at<br />

www.worldwatch.org/node/5884; potential for wind energy from<br />

Catherine Dominguez, “African region’s wind energy resource<br />

better compared with other countries,” EcoSeed.org, 6 November<br />

2012; 7% of continent’s hydropower potential and hydropower<br />

capacity expansion from Richard M. Taylor, International<br />

Hydropower Association, “How to Make the Grand Inga<br />

Hydropower Project Happen for Africa,” PowerPoint presentation<br />

at WEC International Forum on the Grand Inga Projects, March<br />

2007; future capacity demand and required investment from<br />

Nedbank Capital, African Renewable Energy Review, January–<br />

February <strong>2013</strong> (Johannesburg: <strong>2013</strong>); 10 GW by 2020 and<br />

countries with policies in place (including targets) from <strong>REN21</strong>,<br />

Renewables 2012 Global Status Report (Paris: 2012); domestic<br />

solar water heating from Werner Weiss and Franz Mauthner, Solar<br />

Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply<br />

2010 (Paris: 2012); biofuels production and foreign investment<br />

from Pádraig Carmody, “The New Scramble for Africa,” The World<br />

Financial Review, 19 January 2012, and from Damian Carrington<br />

and Stefano Valentino, “Biofuels Boom in Africa as British Firms<br />

Lead Rush on Land for Plantations,” The Guardian (U.K.), 31 May<br />

2011; local manufacturing from African Development Bank, Clean<br />

Energy Development in Egypt, 2012 (Tunis-Belvedere: 2012), and<br />

from <strong>REN21</strong> knowledge of local markets; Chinese investment<br />

from WWF, China and Renewable Energy in Africa: Opportunities<br />

for Norway? (Oslo: 2012); renewable energy investment in Africa<br />

compared to other regions from FS-UNEP and BNEF, Global<br />

Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2012 (Paris: 2012);<br />

international perceptions from Simon Allison, “Africa’s Economic<br />

Growth Miracle: ‘It’s the Real Thing’,” The Daily Maverick (South<br />

Africa), 9 November 2012, at www.dailymaverick.co.za.<br />

15 For example, the Al-Khafji solar desalination project planned in<br />

Saudi Arabia, near the Kuwaiti border, will be the first large-scale<br />

solar power seawater reverse osmosis plant in the world, and<br />

several more such plants are planned, per Robin Yapp, “Solar<br />

Energy and Water: Solar Powering Desalination,” Renewable<br />

Energy World, November–December 2012, p. 12; “The Desert<br />

Kingdom: Desalination from Oil Power to Solar Power?” Saudi<br />

Gazette, 15 April <strong>2013</strong>; Louise Downing, “Remote Miners Investing<br />

in Renewables to Power Operations,” RenewableEnergyWorld.<br />

com, 4 December 2012.<br />

16 See Reference Table R1 and related endnote for details and<br />

references.<br />

17 Based on total additions of 115 GW, with about 45 GW from wind,<br />

30 GW from hydropower, and more than 29.4 GW from solar PV.<br />

For details and references see Reference Table R1 and related<br />

endnote.<br />

18 Growing share based on data from <strong>REN21</strong>, Renewables Global<br />

Status Report, previous editions, and from U.S. EIA, IEA, and<br />

BNEF, provided in FS–UNEP and BNEF, <strong>2013</strong>, op. cit. note 14.<br />

Estimate for net additions and renewable share based on a total of<br />

115 GW of renewable capacity added, as noted in this report; on<br />

3.7 GW of net nuclear power capacity added, from International<br />

Atomic Energy Agency, cited in “Nuclear Power Capacity Grew<br />

Again in 2012: IAEA,” Agence France Presse, 5 March <strong>2013</strong>;<br />

on 152 GW coal-fired capacity installed and just over half was<br />

additional, and 72 GW natural gas-fired capacity installed and a<br />

little more than one-third was additional, for a total of 109 GW of<br />

net capacity additions from fossil fuels, from FS–UNEP and BNEF,<br />

<strong>2013</strong>, op. cit. note 14. Based on these data, total global net capacity<br />

additions in 2012 were estimated to be about 228 GW, putting<br />

the renewable share at just over 50%.<br />

19 Renewable share of total global electric generating capacity<br />

is based on renewable total of 1,470 GW and on total global<br />

electric capacity in the range of 5,640 GW. Estimated total world<br />

capacity for end-2012 is based on 2010 total of 5,183 GW, from<br />

IEA, World Energy Outlook 2012, op. cit. note 1, p. 554; on about<br />

105 GW of renewables added in 2011, from <strong>REN21</strong>, op. cit. note<br />

14, and adjusted data for 2011; on 132 GW net additions of fossil<br />

fuel-fired capacity in 2011, from Angus McCrone, BNEF, personal<br />

communication with <strong>REN21</strong>, 28 May <strong>2013</strong>; on a net reduction in<br />

nuclear power capacity of 7 GW in 2011, from “Nuclear Power<br />

Capacity Grew...,” op. cit. note 18; and on a net total of 228 GW<br />

added from all sources in 2012. Share of generation based on the<br />

following: Total global electricity generation in 2012 is estimated<br />

at 22,389 TWh, based on 22,018 TWh in 2011 from BP, op.<br />

cit. note 1, and an estimated 1.68% growth in global electricity<br />

generation for 2012. The growth rate is based on the total change<br />

in generation for the following countries (which account for more<br />

than 60% of 2011 generation): United States (-1.13% change in<br />

annual generation), EU-27 (-2.41% for January through September<br />

only), Russia (+1.30%), India (+4.65%), China (+5.50%), and Brazil<br />

(+4.06%). Sources for 2010 and 2011 electricity generation are:<br />

U.S. EIA, Monthly Energy Review, April <strong>2013</strong>, Table 7.2a (Electricity<br />

Net Generation); European Commission, Eurostat database,<br />

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu; System Operator of the Unified<br />

Power System of Russia, at www.so-ups.ru; Government of<br />

India, Ministry of Power, Central Electricity Authority, “Monthly<br />

Generation Report,” www.cea.nic.in/monthly_gen.html; China<br />

Electricity Council (CEC), “CEC Released the Country’s Electricity<br />

Industry in 2012 to Run Profiles,” 18 January <strong>2013</strong>, at http://tj.cec.<br />

org.cn/fenxiyuce/yunxingfenxi/yuedufenxi/<strong>2013</strong>-01-18/96374.<br />

html; National Operator of the Electrical System of Brazil (ONS),<br />

“Geração de Energia,” at www.ons.org.br/historico/geracao_energia.aspx.<br />

Hydropower generation in 2012 is estimated at 3,700<br />

TWh, based on reported 2011 global generation and estimation<br />

that output increased by over 6% in 2012. The increase in generation<br />

over 2011 is based on reported changes in countries that<br />

together accounted for over 70% of global hydropower generation<br />

in 2011: United States (-14.9% in annual output), Canada (+1.0%),<br />

EU-27 (+5.4% for January through September), Norway (+17.1%),<br />

Brazil (-2.0%), Russia (+1.1%), India (-12.1% for facilities larger<br />

than 25 MW), and China (+30.4%). The combined hydropower<br />

output of these countries was up by about 6.8% relative to 2011.<br />

Total 2011 hydro generation was 3,498 TWh per BP, op. cit. note 1,<br />

and 3,467 TWh per International Journal on Hydropower & Dams<br />

(IJHD), Hydropower & Dams World Atlas 2012 (Wallington, Surrey,<br />

U.K.: 2012); 2011 and 2012 generation by country: United States<br />

from U.S. EIA, op. cit. this note; Canada from Statistics Canada,<br />

http://www5.statcan.gc.ca; EU-27 from European Commission,<br />

op. cit. this note; Norway from Statistics Norway, www.ssb.<br />

no; Brazil from ONS, op. cit. this note; Ministry of Energy of the<br />

Russian Federation, http://minenergo.gov.ru; Government of India,<br />

op. cit. this note; CEC, op. cit. this note. Non-hydro renewable<br />

generation of 1,159 TWh was based on 2012 year-end generating<br />

capacities shown in Reference Table R1 and representative<br />

capacity factors in note 1, or other specific estimates as detailed<br />

by technology in Section 2. Figure 3 based on sources in this<br />

endnote.<br />

20 Figure of 30% from wind in Denmark based on preliminary 2012<br />

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