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Germany’s energy market will see dramatic changes during the next few years with its nuclear energy capacity halved and renewable energy accounting for 36 per cent of electricity generated by 2020. 
The cost of environmental impacts on business operations are doubling every 14 years, according to a report that stresses stakeholders should act now. 
California’s renewable energy efforts over the course of 2011 resulted in the greatest increase in green power since the start of the programme, but the cost of contracted power under the Renewables Portfolio Standard has steadily risen since 2003, new figures show. 
The value of private equity investment in the cleantech sector has continued to see-saw in the last couple of months, and January's activity continued this trend, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet. 
The deployment of biofuels across Europe for the transport sector could cost users £2bn extra at the pump, according to new research. 
Putting a tariff on Chinese imports of solar cells and modules into the US would result in the loss of 50,000 American jobs over the next three years, a new analysis has found. 
US venture investment into the energy and utilities industry raised $2.9bn for 134 deals as investment stayed flat but deal activity rose 14 per cent, according to new research. 
Oil giant BP has identified biofuels as one area of five key opportunities for the energy sector in its Energy Outlook 2030. 
Water power can potentially provide 15 per cent of the entire energy needs of the US by 2030, according to two new major reports. 
The US is thinking ‘too small’ when it comes to energy efficiency and is ‘crowding out’ economically beneficial investments in energy efficiency by focusing on riskier bids to develop new energy sources, a report has warned. 
Washington is paralysed by fear and a pull back on clean energy economic development seems likely. But a new report has found that state clean energy funds do hold a partial answer. 
The value of private equity, venture and development capital investment in global cleantech companies increased for the second consecutive year in 2011, reaching $9.70bn. However, growth since 2009 has been slow, averaging at less than three per cent over two years, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet. 
A fundamental increase in demand for water will drive the smart water meter market over the next five years, new research has found. 
New figures show that for the first nine months of 2011 the share of power that renewable energy provided increased to 11.95 per cent, up from 10.85 per cent for the same period in 2010. 
Two years from now, more than 80 different models of plug-in electric vehicles will be found across the globe, according to new research. 
Utility-scale developments in the US caused a boom in third quarter activity and resulted in a record rise of installations. 
Wind power has the capacity to significantly limit anticipated increases in greenhouse gas emissions that are due to come online with the build out of industrial developments in Canada, a new report has found. 
This has been a quiet month for positive smart grid news, no sensational announcements on the financial and M&A front that promise to unleash more funds or technological developments, writes Allan McHale, author of smart grid blog Memoori. 
US venture capital investment in cleantech companies witnessed a dramatic increase in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year, rising 73 per cent to $1.1bn, according to the latest figures. 
