PRI’s The World: Renewable investment hits record high
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/Angus+on+BBC-PRI.mp3 via Carolyn Beeler, PRI’s The World Oil prices hit 12-year lows this month as coal and natural gas prices remain low as well. But seemingly counterintuitively, renewable energy investments were at record highs in 2015, climbing 4 percent to nearly $330 billion worldwide according to a recent report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. […]
Marketplace: Big boost for wind and solar in budget bill
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/mp_20151217_seg_17_64.mp3 via Gigi Douban, Marketplace Some big energy industry news is included in the more than 2,000 page document that is the omnibus spending bill under consideration by Congress. One provision would end a decades old ban on exporting crude oil from the U.S. But the bill also includes a five year extension on […]
ABC News PM – Where do the Paris negotiations go now?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/20151202-pm05-whatnowparis+-+Kobad.mp3 With Tim Palmer and David Mark from PM, ABC News & Kobad Bhavnagri, Head of Australia at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. World leaders have left the Paris climate talks, and now the real work begins. Environment and energy ministers and the chief negotiators from almost 200 countries will spend the next week […]
BNEF’s Morsy on Tesla tapping into huge SUV market
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/20150930_Salim+Morsy+on+Taking+Stock.mp3 Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Salim Morsy speaks on ‘Taking Stock’ about Tesla Motors’ recent unvealing of its Tesla X SUV. Podcast hosted by Michael McKee and Kathleen Hays.
Marketplace with Scott Tong: EPA carbon rules catch up with the market
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/Liebreich_EPA_Marketplace.mp3 By Scott Tong, Marketplace The President rolled out Monday the much-anticipated centerpiece to his climate change plan. It envisions an overhaul in power plants, what they burn, and the broader electricity system. It’s ambitious. But to people in and around the power sector, this revolution is already well underway. Not because of the […]
Ethan Zindler on Obama’s new Clean Power Plan
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/Ethan+on+BBG+Radio_Obama.mp3 Taking Stock with Michael McKee and Kathleen Hays. GUEST: Ethan Zindler, Head of Americas for BNEF, to discuss President Obama’s new energy and climate change policies.
KPCC’s Take Two: EPA loses Supreme Court fight
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/SCPR+-+Ethan+on+EPA+Supreme+Court-june29.2015.mp3 The Supreme Court has now sided with the challengers, ruling that the cost of adapting to these regulations should be taken into account. Ethan Zindler, an analyst from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, told Take Two that most of the country’s power plants had already complied with the regulations but the few that haven’t […]
Marketplace with Scott Tong: SCOTUS rules against EPA regulations
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/mp_20150629_seg_21_64+(1).mp3 In a 5-4 decision on Monday, the Supreme Court decided against the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution regulations. The regulations would have limited emissions from coal-fired plants, but the court’s decision centered on the issue of environmental benefits versus industry cost. Scott Tong interviews BNEF’s Head of Americas, Ethan Zindler.
Bloomberg Surveillance with Michael McKee & Tom Keene: New Energy Outlook 2015
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/energy.mp3 Bloomberg Radio’s Michael McKee and Tom Keene sits down with BNEF’s Seb Henbest to talk through our just-published New Energy Outlook 2015. At hand? Power generation over the next 25 years, the rise of small-scale solar and how $12.2 trillion will change everything.
Sputnik News: Solar power in Africa is a game changer
https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/2015_05_14_Solar+Power+in+Africa+is+a+Game+Changer+sputniknews.mp3 The introduction of cheap solar power systems in remote and not so remote parts of Africa is changing the energy production model of Africa. This is having knock on effects on the infrastructural and political structures of many Third World countries. Nico Tyabji, an associate at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, where he coordinates research […]