Categories: Solar Energy
      Date: May 20, 2008
     Title: Solar energy grew by 40% 2007
Solar energy grew by 40% worldwide last year and reached the 2,246 MW, according to the latest report from Greenpeace presented today in Barcelona, which estimates that this energy source will give birth to more than one billion people in 2020.



According to the environmental group, in this process is a key political commitment by the European Directive on Renewable Energy, which requires that 20% of the energy consumed is renewable. In addition, Greenpeace pointed out that one could go further if Spain finally agrees to that half of the energy supplied is renewable in the next Spanish Renewable Energy Plan.

According to the report, solar energy could generate 300,000 million annually in 2030, in addition to about 6.5 million jobs. In the same year, environmentalists expect them to come to produce 1.8 billion kilowatt per hour and that has been reduced a total of 6,671 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

The environmental group claimed that in 2015 this energy will become competitive with the prices that consumers pay for electricity in some areas of the planet. In this sense, he pointed out that last year the installed capacity of solar photo-voltaicos peak, reaching more than 8,700 megawatts peak (MWp).

The person responsible for energy campaign for Greenpeace Spain, Jose Luis Garcia Ortega, explained that a revolution is needed to curb climate change. This requires an attitudinal change in the political and economic sectors, which still apply to dirty energy, to move to bet on renewables.

For his part, the vice president of the European Association of Industries Fotovoltaicas (EPIA), Ernesto Macias, noted that this sector will invest 14,000 billion euros in 2010 to extend globally factories photo-voltaicas.

Mass production will allow us to further reduce production costs, which will make us competitive with electricity prices for the final consumer in a period of time between short and medium.