Global A two-point rise for Ch brings the Asian giant twice as much in clean emerged as the world’ Meanwhile, the US has In this issue: Overview of indices 1 “Shift to green” – Challenges 2 for renewable support mechanisms Renewa attracti May 2010 Issue 25 mid-term elections. Th capacity last quarter s India has increased tw (€0.76b) into the gree capacity and 1GW of s The UK has seen a two (€2.3b) “green invest electricity network to has also been launche Greece, Spain and Port worsening capital mar Standard and Poor (S& points following the de The lead article in this with renewables comm responsibility t o ensur and taxpayer. As the IPO and M&A m companies will be incr describing different va Valuing renewables 5 Issue highlights – equity 7 M&A activity 8 IPO activity 9 All renewables index 10 Long-term wind index 11 Near-term wind Index 12 Country focus – 13 US, China, Germany, India, Italy, UK, France, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Czech Republic Commentary – guidance notes 25 Company index 27 Glossary 28 ighlights ina in this issue, together with a single-point fall for the US, into joint first position with the US. China invested almost energy projects last year compared with the US, and has market leader in installed wind power capacity in 2009. dropped a point due to the increasing likelihood that the ble energy country veness indices e US near-term wind index also fell after the lowest installed ince 2007. points following the Government’s injection of over US$1b economy and the unveiling of plans for up to 4GW of wind lar power to be installed in the short to medium term. point increase following government plans to launch a £2b ent bank” fund, and approval for a £1b upgrade to the UK’s oost renewable energy integration. A new planning regime in a bid to speed up project approvals. ugal have all suffered negative score changes due to ets and a downward revision of sovereign credit ratings by P). Q1 was also a difficult period for Australia, dropping two lay in the planned emission trading scheme until after 2012. issue discusses the fact that as economies “shift to green”, anding a high share of the future energy mix, there is a that value for money is achieved on behalf of the consumer arkets recover, robust valuation of renewable assets and asingly in demand. There is a special feature article luation approaches and methodologies.