Waiting for a Rockefeller: Meet the Next `Supermajors' of Energy
- Dominant global players have yet to emerge in wind and solar
- Handful of clean-energy companies build `supermajor' skills
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More than a decade after the birth of the modern renewable energy industry, solar and wind await their John D. Rockefeller.
Clean power remains a tumultuous and fragmented business, crowded with companies grabbing for slices of an emerging market that aspires to reshape how the world meets its energy needs. They rise and fall as technology advances and demand seesaws. Some have grown into sprawling regional players, often propped up by government subsidies. A few, like Suntech Power Holdings Co. and Q-Cells SE, soared to prominence, then all but flickered out.