
201 06 RENEWABLES 2014 GLOBAL STATUS REPORT TRACKING THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION: A DECADE OF UNPRECEDENTED MOMENTUM FOR RENEWABLES 1 Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Futures Report 2013 (Paris: REN21 Secretariat, 2013), http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/REN21_GFR_2013_print. pdf. 2 Ibid.; REN21, Renewables 2007 Global Status Report (Paris: REN21 Secretariat, 2007), http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/ documents/activities/gsr/RE2007_Global_Status_Report.pdf. 3 REN21, Renewables 2013 Global Status Report (Paris: REN21 Secretariat, 2013), http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/documents/ Resources/GSR/2013/GSR2013_lowres.pdf; see also data in relevant sections of this report. 4 REN21, Renewables 2005 Global Status Report (Paris: REN21 Secretariat, 2005), http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/documents/ activities/gsr/RE2005_Global_Status_Report.pdf; REN21, Renewables 2013…, op. cit. note 3; see also data in relevant sections of this report. 5 Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind Report – Annual Market Update 2013 (Brussels: 2014); REN21, Renewables 2005…, op. cit. note 4; REN21, Renewables 2013…, op. cit. note 3; data in relevant sections of this report. 6 International Energy Agency (IEA), Technology Roadmap: Wind Energy (Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/IEA, 2013), http://www.iea.org/publications/ freepublications/publication/Wind_2013_Roadmap.pdf. 7 REN21, Renewables 2005…, op. cit. note 4; REN21, Renewables 2013…, op. cit. note 3; see also data in relevant sections of this report. 8 IEA Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program (IEA-ETSAP) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Technology Brief E11 – January 2013 (Paris and Abu Dhabi/Bonn: 2013), http://www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA- ETSAP%20Tech%20Brief%20E11%20Solar%20PV.pdf. 9 European Commission Joint Research Centre, “PV Production Grows Despite a Crisis-driven Decline in Investment,” press release (Brussels: 30 September 2013), http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/ jrc/downloads/jrc_20130930_newsrelease_pv_status.pdf; see also section on Solar PV in this report. 10 REN21, Renewables 2005…, op. cit. note 4; REN21, Renewables 2013…, op. cit. note 3; see also relevant sections of this report. 11 Ibid. 12 Ibid. 13 Ibid. 14 O. 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