{"id":10151,"date":"2015-05-12T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:39:04","slug":"is-15-of-the-global-clean-energy-market-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2015\/05\/12\/is-15-of-the-global-clean-energy-market-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Is 15% of the Global Clean Energy Market Good Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does 15 percent measure up?\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usdagov\/7556615906\/\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re talking about a baseball batting average, 15 percent puts you on the first fast and joyless train to Mudville. If you\u2019re talking about return on savings\u00a0with today\u2019s interest rates,\u00a015 percent has you laughing all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n

If, however, you\u2019re talking about America\u2019s share of a $1.3 trillion global clean energy market, as Advanced Energy Economy recently reported<\/a>, that 15-percent figure, while not too shabby, merits further consideration about how we got here \u2013 and where we should be heading.<\/p>\n

Advanced energy market grew a whopping 14%\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sure, the \u201cadvanced energy market\u201d is a broad term, but that\u2019s because it\u2019s a broad market.<\/p>\n

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Distinct from conventional energy products, advanced energy products are all the clean energy innovations we see and use on a daily basis including\u00a0solar panels<\/a>, wind turbines, electric and hybrid vehicles,\u00a0high-performance buildings<\/a>\u00a0and energy-saving industrial processes.<\/p>\n

Simply put, the advanced energy market is everything that enables more secure, clean, and affordable energy for today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s big. The global advanced energy market is on par with the apparel industry and four times as big as the semiconductor industry. The United States market, for its part, reached nearly $200 billion in 2014 revenue, surpassing our airline industry and roughly equaling the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n

With a growth rate of 14 percent last year \u2013 five times that of the overall economy \u2013 the U.S. advanced energy market appears to be on the right track. So how do we sustain growth and expand the market over time?<\/p>\n

Energy efficiency: A $1.2-trillion opportunity \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Advanced Energy Economy, U.S. building efficiency is the largest advanced energy market segment, with revenue of $60 billion last year. The kicker is that energy efficiency is not only the critical growth driver \u2013 it\u2019s often the\u00a0cheapest and easiest to implement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, a new\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found efficiency programs cost utilities exactly 4.6 cents per kilowatt hour, on average, while generating the same amount of electricity can cost up to three times more. After all, the cheapest energy is the kind you don\u2019t have to produce in the first place.<\/p>\n

Efficiency has the potential to generate more than\u00a0$1.2 trillion<\/a>\u00a0in domestic energy savings by 2020 \u2013 a figure on par with today\u2019s entire advanced energy market. But only if we get the right policies in place.<\/p>\n

A plan to drive investments<\/strong><\/p>\n

A competitive, innovative market rests on stable, forward-looking policies, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s proposed Clean Power Plan<\/a>\u00a0is one crucial step in the right direction. By placing limits on carbon pollution from existing fossil fuel power plants, the plan will create long-term market signals to\u00a0drive investment\u00a0<\/a>in energy efficiency and all areas of the advanced energy market.<\/p>\n

So, while the U.S. has only 15 percent of the global advanced energy market today, we may soon boost our share significantly. The advanced energy market is dynamic, continually evolving to integrate the most efficient and cost-effective technologies and services.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s encourage its growth with equally dynamic policy.<\/p>\n

Photo source: Flickr\/USDA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This post originally appeared on our EDF Voices blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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