China, India and Brazil at top of renewable energy country attractiveness indices

Ernst & Young, an international professional services company, showed striking gains made by developing countries in its most recent “Renewable energy country attractiveness indices.”

According to the report, “Western Europe and the US markets have been hit by a perfect storm of reduced government incentives, restricted access to capital in increased competition from abroad.” Specifically singled out as “[sharing] an acute need for more renewable power” were Argentina, Hungary, Israel, Tunisia and Ukraine.

China remains atop of the list of the 40 countries evaluated for all renewables, while Brazil entered the top ten for the first time. Yet Romania made the greatest leap, with its renewable energy attractiveness index reaching 13^th from being unlisted only two years ago.

Scores are derived by rating general country-specific parameters such as infrastructure as well as technology-specific parameters and are out of a possible score of 100.

Below are country indices in the “biomass and other resources” category.

Ernst & Young renewable energy country attractiveness indices: biomass and other resources (November 2011)

Rank	Country	Score
1	Germany	65
2	USA	61
3	India	59
4	China	58
5	UK	57
6	France	57
7	Sweden	56
8	Italy	53
9	Finland	52
10	Brazil	51
11	Canada	49
12	Austria	48
13	Spain	46
14	Denmark	45
15	Norway	45
16	Romania	44
17	Ireland	44
18	Ukraine	43
19	Australia	42
20	Poland	42
21	Hungary	41
22	South Korea	40
23	Portugal	39
24	Belgium	38
25	Mexico	38
26	Japan	37
27	Netherlands	36
28	South Africa	36
29	Egypt	35
30	Taiwan	35
31	Morocco	35
32	Greece	34
33	New Zealand	34
34	Turkey	34
35	Bulgaria	33
36	Argentina	31
37	Czech Republic	30
38	Chile	27
39	Israel	25
40	Tunisia	19