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A new worldwide industry is dawning. The global clean energy economy experienced tremendous growth over the past five years–with investment growth of 230 percent since 2005–all the while weathering the recent financial downturn. Read more.

Fact Sheets

Reports

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2012 Edition

    In less than a decade, clean energy transitioned from novelty products to the mainstream of world energy markets. The sector emerged not so much in a linear fashion as episodic—in fits and starts associated with the worldwide economic downturn, continent-wide debt crises, national policy uncertainty, and intense industry competition.More

     

  • Advantage America: The U.S.-China Clean Energy Technology Trade Relationship in 2011

    This report seeks to shed light on the relationship between the U.S. and China in regards to the clean energy technology trade.More

     

  • Innovate, Manufacture, Compete: A Clean Energy Action Plan

    The global clean energy marketplace is expanding rapidly, but the competitive position of American industry is at risk because of increased competition abroad and uncertain policies at home, according to a report released today.More

     

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2011 Edition

    This report examines key financial, investment, and technological trends in 2011 related to the clean energy economy of G-20 members. Our primary focus is on investment, which drives innovation, commercialization, manufacturing, and installation of clean energy technologies.More

     

  • Powering America's Communities

    How smart state energy policy can foster economic development and local energy independence through distributed clean energy generation.More

     

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition

    The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition, show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward.  More

     

  • Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity

    Over the last half decade, the clean energy economy has emerged around the world as a major new opportunity for investment, manufacturing, jobs and environmental protection. This report, Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity, explores scenarios for the dynamic expansion of electricity generated by renewable resources over the next decade.More

     

  • The Power to Compete?

    Analysis of key clean energy technology and competitiveness provisions in the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act of 2010.More

     

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?

    The report, Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? (PDF), documents the dawning of a new worldwide industry—clean energy—which has experienced investment growth of 230 percent since 2005.More

     

  • The Clean Energy Economy

    The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007. In a new report, Pew provides the first-ever hard count across the 50 states of the actual jobs, companies and venture capital investments that supply the growing market demand for environmentally friendly jobs, products and services.More

     

Other Resources

Compilations

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2012 Edition

    Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race: 2012 Edition documents how the old order is changing technologically and geographically. Clean energy is gaining ground in the global energy mix. Even as several pioneering countries have stumbled, new markets have opened, and the center of gravity for clean energy investment has shifted from West to East.More

     

  • Innovate, Manufacture, Compete: A Clean Energy Action Plan

    The Pew Charitable Trusts believes that advanced clean energy technologies can strengthen America’s economic and environmental future as well as its security. To reclaim a leadership position in the worldwide competition, the public and private sectors in the United States must work together to strengthen the clean energy industry.More

     

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2011 Edition

    The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2011 Edition, show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector.More

     

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition

    The Pew report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition, demonstrates how countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward.More

     

  • Governor Granholm Joins Pew to Champion Clean Energy Policy

    The Pew Charitable Trusts announced its collaboration with former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to launch a national campaign for clean energy policies that create jobs, stimulate innovation, spur investment and enhance America's competitiveness in the global clean energy race.More

     

  • Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity

    Over the last half decade, the clean energy economy has emerged around the world as a major new opportunity for investment, manufacturing, jobs and environmental protection.  More

     

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?

    The Pew report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?, documents the dawning of a new worldwide industry—clean energy—which has experienced investment growth of 230 percent since 2005.  More

     

  • Clean Energy Business Network

    As a leader and an employer in this emerging field, you know better than most that America’s clean energy economy is one of the fastest growing industries in the country and is poised for additional explosive growth. In fact, jobs that make up the clean energy economy grew nearly two and half times faster than U.S. jobs overall between 1998 and 2007. These are the jobs driving economic growth and environmental sustainability at a time when America desperately needs both.  More

     

  • The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America

    The clean energy economy, still in its infancy, is emerging as a vital component of America's new economic landscape. That's the finding of The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America, a groundbreaking analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts that sheds light on an increasingly important part of the nation's economic recovery.  More

     

Videos

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2012 Edition Play

    Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2012 Edition

    Clean energy is a significant, growing sector of the global economy. While investment levels declined 11 percent to $269 billion, in part to due to curtailed incentive programs, the market demonstrated resilience with a record 88 gigawatts of new generating capacity additions in 2012.More

     
  • Clean Energy Economy Opportunities Play

    Clean Energy Economy Opportunities

    Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan governor, presents the business case for pragmatic clean energy policy.More

     
  • Increase My MPG! Play

    Increase My MPG!

    High gas prices may give us pause before taking a long road trip, but we still need to drive to work, the grocery store or school. This Pew Clean Energy Program video highlights the benefits of increasing fuel efficiency—or miles-per-gallon (MPG)—standards for cars and light trucks to as high as 60 MPG by 2025. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation (EPA-DOT) are expected to release a proposed joint rule by Sept. 30, 2011, that will elevate fuel efficiency fleet wide to a level between 47 and 62 mpg for cars and light trucks.More

     
  • What is Clean Energy? Play

    What is Clean Energy?

    Sharing their bi-partisan agreement in this short video, former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) and Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) discuss why America needs a national clean energy policy.More

     
  • Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm Kicks Off Clean Energy Tour Play

    Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm Kicks Off Clean Energy Tour

    Former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, senior adviser to The Pew Charitable Trusts' Clean Energy Program, is launching a national campaign to highlight how clean energy policies can help create jobs, stimulate innovation, spur private investment and enhance America's competitiveness in the global clean energy race.More

     
  • Global Clean Energy Race Play

    Global Clean Energy Race

    The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? (released March, 2011) show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward.More

     
  • Governor Granholm: Clean Energy Policy Leader Play

    Governor Granholm: Clean Energy Policy Leader

    Former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm will serve as a senior advisor in Pew's efforts to promote clean energy policies that create jobs, stimulate innovation, spur investment and enhance America's competitiveness in the global clean energy race.More

     
  • Global Clean Power Play

    Global Clean Power

    In its latest report, "Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity," the Pew Environment Group describes profound economic gains over the next decade for countries and regions in the G-20 that enact clean energy policies.More

     
  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? Play

    Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?

    This video features Phyllis Cuttino, Pew Global Warming Campaign Director, discussing the new report Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, Competition and Opportunity in the World's Largest Economies.More

     
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