Thu, 5 August 2010 Appetite for Infrastructure: Building the Renewable Energy Sector

In the aftermath of the financial collapse, big investors are returning to some market fundamentals — abandoning flimsy derivatives for tried and true physical assets. One of the concrete investments investors are eyeing is infrastructure. Specifically, renewable energy infrastructure.

The renewable energy market is poised to explode in the coming years, and is already booming in countries like China, Brazil and Germany. And investors are eager to tap into it. Although a price on carbon — which would give renewables the punctuated equilibrium needed to free up investment dollars and More >