Pareto in the Wild: Clean Energy

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A recent report from the Pew Charitable Trusts shows clean energy investment from a global perspective. This is important because investment dollars in an emerging technology is an indicator of potential growth in the future and, specifically for clean energy, we’re talking about clean energy jobs.

And, for our purposes, it turns out that the clean energy investment picture demonstrates the Pareto Principle and forms a nice Pareto Chart:

By clean energy, the report specifically calls out the following as clean energy:

• Wind
• Solar
• Biofuels
• Efficiency and Low Carbon Technology and Services
• Other Renewables

The Pareto Chart above shows that China is making the largest investments in clean energy, with $54.4 Billion Dollars of investment in 2010. That’s a massive amount of money and is sure to create many clean energy companies, clean energy jobs, and is just a great investment in the future of our planet.

What is Pareto in the Wild?

In my daily living, I’ve attempted to document how and where Pareto happens to show up. Below are my posts that I’ve called “Pareto in the Wild”:

• Pareto in the Wild: Emergency Room Visits
• Pareto in the Wild: Location Based Services – the Check-in
• Pareto in the Wild: Water Usage by Country
• Pareto in the Wild: Thanksgiving Turkey Edition
• Pareto in the Wild: Cybermonday and Black Friday Edition
• Pareto in the Wild: Poopy Diaper Edition
• Pareto in the Wild: Money Spent on Hamburgers
• Pareto in the Wild: Phone Texting Usage by Age
• Pareto in the Wild: The Forbes Billionaire List
• Pareto in the Wild: Sarah Palin Edition
• Pareto in the Wild: Snoop Doggy Dogg Edition
• Pareto in the Wild: Not a Pareto, but a Flateto

	This post was written by Pete Abilla