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Renewables in energy consumption
41.2 %
in 2021
12 %
in 2021
Investment
€ 13.4 billion
in 2021*
$ 105 billion
in 2021
Numbers of people employed
300000
in 2019
3000000
in 2020
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% of renewables in energy consumption U.S. & Germany or EU (using flags)
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$ / € in investment // dollar size of sectors U.S. & Germany/EU
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DL: 13.4 billion Euro in renewable energy facilities in 2021 (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/171896/umfrage/investitionen-in-anlagen-zur-nutzung-von-strom-aus-erneuerbaren-energien/#:~:text=Die%20Statistik%20zeigt%20die%20Entwicklung,Erneuerbare%2DEnergie%2DAnlagen%20investiert. )
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US: 105 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/499193/clean-energy-investment-in-the-us/#:~:text=The%20United%20States’%20investment%20in,totaled%20roughly%2010%20billion%20U.S. )
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Number of people employed
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3 million in 2020 in US (https://e2.org/reports/clean-jobs-america-2021/)
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Ca 300.000 in Deutschland in 2019 (https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/umweltindikatoren/indikator-beschaeftigte-im-bereich-erneuerbare#die-wichtigsten-fakten)
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BOOSTING THE GREEN ENERGY INDUSTRY: WHAT GERMANY CAN LEARN FROM THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT
Thanks to all participants for the constructive and insightful discussion! If you want to keep in touch send an e-mail to info@sunandwindbelt.com
Together with our speakers Omid Nouripour, Christian Roselund, Michael Hüther and Milan Nitzschke we discussed which implications follow from the IRA for the German renewable energy industry.
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