| • | The number of employees in this sector rose from 160,500 in 2004 to 300,500 in 2009 - an increase of more than 87 percent! |
| • | They have a share of 16.1% of gross electricity consumption and 8.4% of heat supply And investment information from the latest report that I can find on renewable energy investments (2007): |
| • | Total investments and revenues from plant operations rose last year to around 30 billion euro - almost 4.5 billion more than in the previous year |
| • | With almost 13 billion euro, investments in plant construction were almost 20 percent above the previous year's figure.Source: BSU, Renewable energy sources in figures, 2007 |


