Renewable energy Investment The present-day renewable-energy industry is an energy industry focusing on new and appropriate renewable energy technologies, which excludes large-scale hydro-electricity. Investors worldwide have paid much greater attention to this emerging renewable energy industry in recent years. In many cases, this has translated into rapid renewable energy commercialization and considerable industry expansion. The wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV) industries provide good examples of this. Renewable energy industries expanded during most of 2008, and by August 2008, there were at least 160 publicly traded renewable energy companies with a market capitalization greater than $100 million. An estimated $120 billion was invested in renewable energy globally in 2008. Leading renewable energy companies include First Solar, Gamesa, GE Energy, Q-Cells, Sharp Solar, Siemens, SunOpta, Suntech, and Vestas. [ref. wikipedia]

Global renewable energy investment growth (1995-2007)

Small-scale renewable energy for local communities ASI has assembled a network of partner firms specialized in several renewable energy sub-sectors. Through such partnership, ASI can identify, design and implement modules for villages integrating various types of renewable energy sources (based on solar, wind, vegetable oil, mini-hydro) to support a broad range of services, for instance the purification of drinking water or desalination of sea water for coastal villages, electricity production to operate health facilities, telecom micro-systems, cold storages for foods conservation, street lightning etc., the combination of various modules being dependent on the specificity of the local situation. Special modules have been developed for locations, such as islands or remote areas, totally deprived of other sources of energy.