{"id":408,"date":"2016-02-16T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=408"},"modified":"2016-02-16T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T15:06:57","slug":"u-s-invests-second-most-in-clean-energy-across-the-globe-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/u-s-invests-second-most-in-clean-energy-across-the-globe-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. invests second-most in clean energy across the globe in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>U.S. invested more than $56 billion in clean energy in 2015<\/h2>\n<p>Overall investment in clean energy in the United States topped $56 billion last year, which turned out to be the second highest total in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Total investment in renewable energy and energy smart technologies in the U.S. hit $56 billion in 2015, according to recent report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcse.org\/sustainableenergyfactbook.html\" title=\"Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)<\/strong><\/a>. This mark is an increase of 8 percent from one year earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">$56B total US investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cleanenergy?src=hash\">#cleanenergy<\/a> in 2015, 2nd in the world <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Factbook?src=hash\">#Factbook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2lFqDN4uWK\">https:\/\/t.co\/2lFqDN4uWK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/thuT2Sq8c2\">pic.twitter.com\/thuT2Sq8c2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BCSE Clean Energy (@BCSECleanEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCSECleanEnergy\/status\/695373852478537729\">February 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Investment since 2007 nearing $500 billion<\/h3>\n<p>Renewable energy and energy smart technologies have now seen about $445 billion of investment since 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCSE-2016-Sustainable-Energy-in-America-Factbook_Executive-Summary.pdf\" title=\"the BCSE report noted\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the BCSE report noted<\/strong><\/a>. In that time frame (2007 to 2015), annual investment totals ranged from $36 billion to $64 billion.<\/p>\n<h3>Solar investment leads the way<\/h3>\n<p>Approximately 50 percent of all new investment in renewable technology in 2015 went into solar power development, while about 21 percent went into wind power development.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/renewables-saw-more-than-300-billion-in-investments-in-2015\/\" title=\"Renewables saw more than $300 billion in investments in 2015\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/renewable-energy-electricity_kf7k6r4b1-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Renewables saw more than $300 billion in investments in 2015\" alt=\"Renewables saw more than $300 billion in investments in 2015\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/renewables-saw-more-than-300-billion-in-investments-in-2015\/\" title=\"Renewables saw more than $300 billion in investments in 2015\"><h4>Renewables saw more than $300 billion in investments in 2015<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/renewables-saw-more-than-300-billion-in-investments-in-2015\/\" title=\"Renewables saw more than $300 billion in investments in 2015\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>U.S. trails China globally<\/h3>\n<p>In 2015, the U.S. turned out to be the second-most active country in clean energy investment but still trails China. Total U.S. investment of $56 billion is a little more than half of the $111 billion of investment in clean energy that China saw last year.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcse.org\/sustainableenergyfactbook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall investment in clean energy in the United States topped $56 billion last year, which turned out to be the second highest total in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,6,5,7],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}