According to World Energy Council many of the best locations on the world for wave energy exploitation are placed on Australia’s southern coast. Scientists have mapped out Australian south coast from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania to mark best places for generating electricity from wave energy and concluded that there can be generated five times more electricity than Australia’s current consumption.

Dr Mark Hemer from Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research's says: "If we look at the sustained energy resource along the southern coastline - and we're looking between Geraldton in West Australia and southern tip of Tasmania - that has a sustained wave energy resource of about five times larger than Australia's present day electricity consumption".

Globally installed geothermal energy capacity in 2010 is 10,715 MW which represents a 20% increase compared to 2005 when 24 countries accounted for total geothermal capacity of 8,933 MW (this number refers to electricity generating potential based on geothermal energy). The number of states that have shown interest for geothermal energy has increased even more, in 2007 46 countries seriously considered geothermal energy, and this number increased in 2010 to 70 countries, a significant growth of 52 %. Despite this significant increase there are still many countries that fail to use their geothermal potential. In 1999, 39 states were identified as having big enough geothermal energy potential to satisfy 100% of their needs for electricity but only nine of these states started using geothermal energy on more serious level. For comparison on how much geothermal energy capacity is currently installed worldwide we can use nuclear power plants as an example: the average nuclear power plant has the capacity of 846 MW so according to this currently globally installed geothermal capacity equals the power of a bit more than 12 average nuclear power plants

On February 16, 2010, US President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion of federal loan guarantees to begin building the first US nuclear power stations after more than 30 years. New nuclear expansion will start with the construction and operation of two new 1100 MW Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors which are to be constructed as a unit 3 and unit 4 of an existing nuclear power plant Vogtle in Burke County, Georgia. Two new plants will be constructed by US electricity firm Southern Company and it is expected to cost $14 billion to build. The company said the new reactors could be online by 2016 and are expected to provide 2200MW of low carbon power.

Once both reactors are up and running they will be capable of serving around 550,000 homes. President Obama said the plant will safely produce enough clean energy to offset 30 million barrels of oil or the equivalent of taking 3.5 million cars off the road. Obama also said the project would create "thousands of construction jobs over eight years and then hundreds of well-paid jobs" when the facilities become operational. Southern Company said the work would create about 3,000 construction jobs and 850 people would subsequently be permanently employed when the reactors became operational.

Fears that increased energy demand, as well as the need for ecologically acceptable fuels that would replace highly polluting fossil fuels are the main reasons behind many different alternative energy researches. One segment of the alternative fuel market that has been recently gaining plenty of popularity are biofuels. The definition for biofuels is any liquid fuel that originates from renewable plant materials. When we compare biofuels with the gasoline we can see that the gasoline is refined from limited crude oil supplies, while biofuel can be produced from a number of organic sources that are not limited like oil is. According to some energy experts, biofuels are the only renewable energy sector that is capable to replace currently dominant fossil fuels.

One of the first major discoveries in biofuel technology was developed using corn and wheat products. This created controversy amongst many different circles in the scientific as well as social community. Critics have claimed that crops used in the production of food should not be turned in to fuel because of the potential damage it could cause on the food supply and increase food prices, especially since today there are over billion hungry people in the world. Researchers have since focused more on creating biofuels deriving from plants that typically have no real value in global food supply.

India looks to be ready to launch massive "Solar Mission" under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. Under this National action plan India should install 1,000 MW of solar power every year by 2013. Leading energy experts believe that if this solar expansion goes well it could lead to massive solar power installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the year 2020. That's an ambitious goal for India, which added about 25 megawatts of generation capacity in 2008, according to GTM Research. From 2001 to 2008, the country had erected 143 megawatts of solar energy systems.

In the first phase that should happen between 2010 and 2013 India also plans to install 200 MW of off-grid solar power and cover seven million square metres with solar collectors, and by the end of the final phase in 2022, the government hopes to have 20,000 MW of grid-based solar power, 2,000 MW of off-grid solar power and cover over 20 million square metres with collectors.

In 2008, cumulative installed wind power capacity increased nearly 29% worldwide which is the highest gain of all renewable energy sectors. At the close of 2008, three-quarters of the nearly 121 GW of the world’s wind generating capacity was operating in the IEA Wind member countries. In the IEA Wind member countries, 17,000 MW was added in 2008 for a total of close to 92 GW of generating capacity. Electrical production from wind energy also heavily increased by more than 25% in IEA giving great boost to new investments and future wind projects. Located in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Pacific Region, the member countries are sharing information and research efforts to increase the contribution of wind energy to their electrical generation mix. Though this electricity production seems big it accounted only 2% of the total electrical demand in the reporting IEA Wind member countries, however this is still step ahead compared to 1.6% in 2007.

Wind energy is one of the most important renewable energy sources, and if we are to believe a European Wind Energy Agency (EWEA) wind could provide 17% of EU's electricity by 2030. This however would require a serious improvement of wind energy sector in Europe because offshore wind farms are currently meeting just 0.3% of total EU electricity demand. In order to achieve such bold targets wind energy sector must first overcome various challenges such as development of the European offshore grid, receiving lot more political support and also needs to be included in improving member states energetic plans.

EWEA report claims that existing and planned European offshore wind projects will, if implemented, supply 10% of Europe's current electricity needs; this would not only be good from energy but also from ecological point of view because over 200 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions every year would be avoided with such a percentage of wind energy in global EU energy demand.