Renewables and clean energy innovators won $333.5 billion in investments in 2017 – an increase of three percent from 2016 figures, Bloomberg New Energy Finance figures show. Half of it went to solar projects and 40 percent came from China. Solar panels and wind turbines get cheaper by the day, thanks to Chinese mass manufacturing. “The 2017 total is all the more remarkable when you consider that capital costs for the leading technology – solar – continue to fall sharply,” said Jon Moore, CEO at BNEF told Bloomberg. “Typical utility-scale PV systems were about 25 percent cheaper per megawatt last year than they were two years earlier.” The cheap parts make it easier for developing countries to become investors in solar and wind projects on their home turf. China itself saw investment in clean energy rise by 24 percent in 2016, making it the world’s biggest renewables […]