The data describes global investment in solar energy technologies between 2004 and 2017. In 2017, global investment in this field came to a little under 161 billion USD. Europe, China and the U.S. are the main investors in this area.
Solar energy investments – additional informationOverall investments into clean energy are largely dominated by wind and solar energy around the world. The wind power sector received just under 110 billion USD in new investments in 2015, while geothermal energy investments totaled about 2 billion USD.
