Bloomberg
New Energy Finance (BNEF) has released
its clean energy investment numbers for the third quarter of 2015, which shows a
slight fall across all sectors from Q3 2014 levels.
However,
when the impacts of a fall in the value of various currencies versus the dollar
are considered, actual investment in clean energy can be considered to be
greater than a year ago. This is as part of a long-term trend of ongoing if
uneven growth.
The
headline numbers also mask significant changes regionally. While European clean
energy investment fell again to reach its lowest quarterly level since 2004,
investment in the Americas is booming, with solar leading the way.
BNEF
reports that U.S. clean energy investments rose 25% year-over-year to US$13.4
billion. Smaller Latin American markets showed even greater growth, with
investments in Brazil rising 131%, and a nearly 10-fold increase in investments
in Chile to $1.6 billion.
Globally,
a larger share of clean energy investment is going to distributed renewable
energy projects, a field which is dominated by solar PV. While global
asset finance for utility-scale renewable energy projects fell 4% year-over-year
to $47.3 billion, investments in distributed generation increased 21% to $19
billion.
Additionally,
Q3 was a good quarter for concentrating solar power (CSP or solar thermal
electric) projects. The global market for CSP has been slow in the past few
years, with competition from PV and siting issues effectively halting the
deployment of CSP in the southwestern United States. However, the technology is
now moving to new markets in other continents.
BNEF
reports that among the largest projects to be financed during the quarter were
CSP projects in China, Israel and South Africa. This includes $866 million
invested in the 200 MW Qinghai CSP project in China and $749 million invested in
SolarReserve's Redstone 100 MW CSP complex in South Africa.
Overall,
China's clean energy sector continued to attract the most funding at $26.7
billion, roughly double the level of the United States. Generally the rise in
Chinese clean energy spending has been more even than in the United
States.
BNEF
also reports an increase in clean energy venture capital (VC) funding to $2
billion during Q3, which is as much as the entire year 2014. This echoes
the up-tick that Mercom Capital
reported for solar VC funding during the quarter.
BNEF's
quarterly clean energy investment numbers look at both corporate funding and
project finance across a range of technologies, including the impacts of
mergers, acquisitions and buy-outs.
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