Renewable energy, which includes production from geothermal, wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric and wave/ocean/tides, is gaining interest from politicians and developers due to global warming predictions and the high cost of oil. Development is also stimulated by the establishment in many states of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) that are to be implemented over the next 10 to 30 years. We in the geothermal industry tend to look only at our resource, but putting geothermal energy production in perspective with the other renewables, helps to understand their place in the market along with strengths and weaknesses. Thus, this article is an attempt to compare the development of all renewable energy types