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Renewable energy : 165 billion USD invested in 2015 by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.

A renewable energy, or EnR abbr., is a source of energy that is constituted or reconstitutes faster when it is used. Thus, solar energy is inexhaustible on the human time scale, the same energies that derive from : wind energy, hydraulic energy (water cycle), the biomass produced by photosynthesis and part of marine energies. It is the same for energy due to gravity (tidal energy) or to internal Geodynamics (geothermal energy).
On the other hand,, energy sources whose renewal is infinitely slower than their consumption, as the oil, are not renewable.

It is an unexpected turn in the global market of investment on energy. Emerging countries and the African continent are the most dynamic with an estimated 165 billion USD. "For the first time in. 2015, investments in renewable energy have been higher in developing than in developed countries., was highlighted Thursday in a press release Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the Programme of the United Nations for the environment (UNEP). Last year, investments have declined in developed countries (- 8 %, 130 billion) and strongly progressed in developing (+ 19 %) to achieve 156 $ billion.

The 10th report of UNEP on the subject, published Thursday, also establishes that investments in the renewable sector (off big hydroelectric dams) reached a new record. If they increased that of 8 % in China, This country is still and by far the largest investor in the renewable energy with 102 billion spent last year. The India (10 billion), the South Africa (4,5 billion), the Mexico (4 billion) and the Chile (3,4 billion) display investments rising sharply, and new countries (Morocco, Turkey, Uruguay) "are entered in the list of countries investing more than one billion dollars" annually.

For the moment, the current energy mix of the African continent depends on 50 % fossil fuels, then the potential of renewable resources (Solar, wind, Hydro, biomass, geothermal energy) is gigantic. Not to mention the constant decline in the cost of energy in the area of solar and wind power. There are also several sources of financing for these types of energies on the continent : There is the World Bank, the Green Fund, the African Development Bank, private contributions and investment funds. In fact, the African investment on energy market is a market that interests global companies, but also, and more and more, local societies, which do necessarily expect investments from outside.

by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.