The US President Donald Trump he said flatly that he didn't believe it. He therefore took the first decisions of his mandate on the subject of energy efficiency, not knowing that his country's companies are investing millions of dollars in rationalizing consumption. Until 2016 they spent over 3 billion in competition with the European sisters. Investments in new technologies and long-term projects with low environmental impact. Trump was not yet in the White House in 2016, but he had started the electoral campaign with aversion to everything Obama had done in terms of fighting climate changes.
Yet in those same months investments favored the diffuse solar, smart grid management, intelligent use inside the home and everything connected to it. Basically a generalized interest in the health of the planet, budgets and wallets. The latest US GTM document describes this global state of affairs. It certifies that last year between the US and Europe there was triple the spending of the previous six years.
As many as 42 companies have concentrated their efforts on acquisitions of smaller companies and holdings. Even the strategies of the Italian Enel, for example, help to strengthen the credibility and expectations for a demand for quality energy. Energy storage with the latest technologies capitalized on $328 million, followed by another $297 million in distributed solar PV. Two sectors well analyzed in the study, which make it clear how the desire of average families to save is practiced. In fact, we are talking about technologies mainly for domestic use.
In the European scenario, the French Engie and the German EON have conquered top positions with distributed solar cogeneration. In the USA the phenomenon has spread in many states, contrasting the ideas of those who do not believe in energy efficiency and are betting everything on a revival of fossil energies.
We were talking about smart grid, smart grids of production and consumption. They are considered acquired in large sections of the world's population. Users are transformed from passive consumers to self-producers, exploiting the possibilities of new technologies. Investments in this field are long-term, but for analysts they guarantee returns on a large scale.
The European Union is financing them and American environmentalists are stimulating their diffusion. Lastly, the billion dollar turnover for sales of direct technologies and energy accumulation to end customers also bodes well. Economic data that are connected to plant engineering in the strict sense, i.e. to those applications ranging from light regulation to thermostats. A scenario that evolves regardless of the decisions of the White House.
