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Renewable-Energy Capacity Booming Worldwide

By Bill MorrisJul 28th 2010 – 4:28PM
Patrick Pleul, AFP / Getty Images

Patrick Pleul, AFP / Getty Images

(July 28) -- The year 2009 was "unprecedented" in the history of renewable-energy production, with China adding more capacity than any other country in the world, according to two new reports from the United Nations Environmental Program and the Renewable Energy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). The U.N. report states...

Background on REN21

REN21, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, is a policy network that provides a forum for international leadership in renewable energy policy, in order to share knowledge and facilitate the rapid growth of renewable energy technologies in developing countries and industrialised economies.

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