RenewableS 2013 GlObal STaTUS RePORT - REN21
RenewableS 2013 GlObal STaTUS RePORT - REN21
RenewableS 2013 GlObal STaTUS RePORT - REN21
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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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