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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. 
