The trend is continuing as once again we see a rise in Clean Tech investment. The preliminary results for the second quarter of 2010 show a total investment of 2.02 billion USD in 140 different companies. There was a slight decrease compared to last quarter (2.04 billion USD), but an increase of 65% in the first half of 2010 (4.02 billion USD) compared to the same period last year.
The forerunner of the investment increase was the solar sector with 811 million USD alone. This is far ahead of the money put in the biofuels (302 million USD) and the smart grid (256 million USD) industries. Based on the total number of deals, the solar sector was second to energy efficiency, the former having accumulated 26 deals and the latter 31 deals.
North American countries accounted for the largest amount of the total investment, namely 72 percent of 1.46 billion USD. European follows in second with 24 percent or 476 million USD. India (3 percent or 59 million USD) and China (2 percent or 30 million USD) follow in third and fourth respectively.
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