Introduction

Charles Donovan

Chapter 1 in Renewable Energy Finance:Funding the Future of Energy, 2020, pp 1-13 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Following a steep fall in oil price in the early 1980s, the renewable energy industry was nearly decimated. Significant investments by large oil companies such as Exxon in solar photovoltaics (PV) were sold off or abandoned, and interest in the sector stagnated for nearly two decades. At the end of the last century, only two countries, Japan and the United States, were producers of solar PV panels and the total investment in the renewable energy sector as a whole bordered on trivial…

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy Finance; Clean Energy Finance; Green Investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q2 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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