Cleantech Group forecasts innovation, change and recovery in the cleantech market

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing an annual tradition, the Cleantech Group(TM), founders of the cleantech sector and providers of leading global market research, events and advisory services for the cleantech industry, today issued ten predictions for clean technology markets in 2010. Next year's forecast reflects a transformative year of reformation around sustainability principles and predicts that the clean economy will go mainstream from every angle, including policy, capital and markets.

What:      Cleantech Group's Ten predictions for 2010 include:
             1.  Private capital growth recovers, record fund year
             2.  Clean economies become the new space race
             3.  Electric cars take the back seat to smart mobility
             4.  Resource constraints beyond carbon rise to the fore
             5.  Commodity tradeoff debates intensify
             6.  Energy efficiency, driven by ICT, eclipses solar
             7.  Marketing suddenly matters
             8.  Buffet leads the super rich into cleantech
             9.  Acquisitions and consolidations accelerate
             10.  The rise of waste-to-energy, geothermal and aquaculture

Where:     Cleantech Group's article on the "Ten predictions for 2010"
           has been published at:
           http://cleantech.com/news/5342/ten-cleantech-predictions-2010

Cleantech Group predicts that 2010 will mark "the end of the beginning for cleantech," resulting in many countries, cities and regions competing to become the leading center for innovative technologies, jobs and wealth creation. In 2010, Cleantech Group expects there will be an end to the talks surrounding changes needed in the cleantech industry, with actual steps taken toward reconstruction. Other forecasts include policy changes to accelerate energy efficiency markets, consolidation in congested cleantech sectors, an increase in global venture investment and private equity compared to 2009 and much more. Cleantech Group expects growth and restructuring in the cleantech sector as global economies recover and the cleantech industry strengthens and reinvents itself.

About the Cleantech Group, LLC

The Cleantech Group pioneered the clean technology investment category in 2002. Today, it accelerates the development and market adoption of clean technologies globally. The company's worldwide network of investors, entrepreneurs, enterprises, service providers and others--representing trillions of dollars in assets--receives access to capital, investment deal flow, networking, market leading research and data, sales leads and promotional opportunities. The Cleantech Group also provides advisory services for large corporations and governments, publishes leading cleantech sector industry news coverage and produces the premier Cleantech Forum® events worldwide. Details are available at http://www.cleantech.com.

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