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The solar industry is on the brink of rising from the ashes of its 2011 crisis to grow to $155bn by 2018, according to new research. 
Renewable energy companies must better understand and meet the communications needs of farmers and landowners, a new survey of the UK agricultural sector’s views shows. 
The use of hybrid and pure-electric drivetrains in underwater and surface vehicles is set to become a $6.3bn market by 2023, according to new research. 
The UK’s CCS Cost Reduction Task Force has issued its final report concluding that UK gas and coal power stations equipped with carbon capture, transport and storage have clear potential to be cost competitive. 
Renewable resources from wind, wave and tidal on the Scottish Islands of the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland could make a significant contribution to Scotland’s and the UK’s 2020 renewables targets, as well as playing an important role in longer term decarbonisation objectives, a new study has concluded. 
A new wave of small young tech firms in the UK marketing low carbon products have the opportunity to tap into a £3tn export opportunity, new research by the Carbon Trust and Shell Springboard shows. 
A new report claims each green job created by finance provided by the US Department of Energy has cost $11m. 
The value of private equity and venture capital investment in the cleantech sector dipped for the fourth month in a row in April 2013 to reach its lowest point of the last 12 months under review, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet. 
One of the main tasks in delivering a smart grid will be to install and bring together Smart Grid systems such as AMI and Automatic Distributed Response with distributed energy and smart buildings to win negawatts. Sector specialist Memoori says Germany’s approach is one worth following. 
The China CleanTech Index reversed gains witnessed throughout the rest of the first quarter by falling slightly in April, outperforming one of its four benchmarks. 
The worldwide market for green construction materials will grow to $254bn in 2020 from today’s level of $116bn, according to new research. 
The US is the most attractive country in terms of using its tax regime to drive sustainable corporate behaviour and achieve green policy goals. 
Institutional private infrastructure investment is beginning to mature as an asset class despite being temporarily slowed by the financial crisis with private energy investments proving buoyant, according to new research by Altius Associates. 
An increased level of shale gas production in the UK may well boost tax revenues but it is not yet clear whether it will bring down the cost of energy to consumers, a new influential report warns. 
US venture capitalists invested $5.9bn in 863 deals in the first quarter of 2013, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, but the cleantech sector declined by 35 per cent. 
The value of private equity and venture capital investment in the cleantech sector declined for the third consecutive month in March 2013 after peaking at $3.05bn in December 2012 in the 12 months under review, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet. 
Smart grid venture capital funding in the first quarter of the year totalled $62m in nine deals, mirroring the level of activity witnessed in 2012, a report by consulting firm Mercom has found. 
Clean energy investment saw a decline of 11 per cent last year against 2011 figures as European countries curtailed incentive schemes, a report by The Pew Charitable Trusts has found. 
The amount of wind power installed this year will see a ‘modest decline’, according to new figures from the Global Wind Energy Council, as the sector fails to match growth seen last year. 
At least 28.4GW of photovoltaic systems were installed worldwide in what was considered to be a stable PV market in 2012 raising the worldwide total of installations to at least 96.5GW, according to a new major report. 
