Global investment in wind and solar power, biofuels, biomass and waste, small hydropower—the main technologies behind clean electricity—has expanded by nearly an order of magnitude since BloombergNEF first started tracking this data. In annual dollars terms, clean-energy investment surged from $33 billion nearly two decades ago to more than $300 billion last year. Growth in investment stopped in the mid-2010s.
But electricity is just one slice of the energy-transition pie. A new BNEF analysis including the electrification of heat and transport as well as nascent investment in energy storage, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage shows that overall investment grew to $501 billion—nearly 70% higher than older, narrower estimates.
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