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We use a novel dataset, making use of the IPC Green Inventory of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to analyze four broad categories of green energy technologies including alternative energy production technologies, energy conservation technologies, and green transportation.
The latter notably include renewable energy technologies, such as solar and wind energy, and fuel cells. In contrast, patents in energy conservation technologies and green transportation technologies have continued to grow, but at a slower pace.
Although most green energy technologies have seen a downward trend in the annual number of patents published since 2012, the decline has been most pronounced in nuclear power generation technologies and alternative energy production technologies.
Over the past 17 years, the number of published PCT applications relating to solar power increased by 678 percent. Solar has been the leading technology every year since 2009. It peaked in 2012, when 2,691 international patent applications were published.
Yet this period of accelerated growth in the number of published green energy patents has been followed by a period of deceleration—even a slow decline.
In 2019, they accounted for 28 percent of publications in the renewables sector. However, international patent applications relating to geothermal energy accounted for just 1.4 percent of those published in the sector. Source: Economics and Statistics Division, WIPO Another way to analyze patent trends is to look at where the patent comes from.
