Category: Opinion

August 28 2018

Bullard: California’s Energy Diet is Working

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard In 2006, California set itself an ambitious environmental goal: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The Air Resources Board recently published its assessment of 2016 — and the state has already hit its 2020 target. California is on a low-carbon diet, so […]

August 20 2018

Gombar: India’s War on Dirty Air Boosts Hope on Global Emissions

By Vandana Gombar Policy Editor Bloomberg NEF There is an ancient Indian fable about a bird with two distinct heads that do not always agree with each other. One head ends up plotting against the other after a dispute. Now imagine that two headed bird to be multi-headed, like a hydra: India’s energy policy sometimes […]

August 7 2018

Cheung: Decentralized Energy and Flexibility: Reasons to Believe

By Albert Cheung Head of Analysis Bloomberg NEF A stroll around the European Utility Week exhibition floor is usually a decent indicator of the latest trends in technology and services for the power sector. When I first attended in 2009, the conference was still called Metering Europe, and the floor was dominated by smart meters, […]

July 25 2018

Henbest: Power System Will Dance to Tune of Wind, Solar, Batteries

By Seb Henbest Lead author, New Energy Outlook Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa Bloomberg NEF Are wind and solar projects just “badly behaved coal plants”? I ask because this perhaps best reflects the argument against the two main renewable energy technologies that critics have put forward in recent years. Yes, those skeptics admit, […]

July 23 2018

Bullard: Utility Companies Head Into a Cloudy Future

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard The world’s publicly listed utilities employed 3.7 million people, had a third of a trillion dollars in capital expenditures, and brought in $2.2 trillion in revenue in 2017. Power supply is an enormous industry. It’s also an industry that would still be recognizable to […]

July 13 2018

Orlandi: Solar, Storage, and the Path to Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

By Itamar Orlandi Head of Frontier Power Research Bloomberg NEF UN delegates are meeting this week in New York to take stock of progress towards the sustainable development goals. This year’s focus is on ensuring access to affordable and reliable energy, safe and resilient cities and water. Our recent report titled ‘Powering the Last Billion’ […]

June 29 2018

McCrone: Ugly Duckling of Clean Energy Has Chance to Make Splash

By Angus McCrone Senior Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance Jutting out into Dublin Bay is a peninsula where Ireland’s capital city puts some of its less lovely buildings. There is a water treatment works, a gas-fired generating plant and two faded red and white, 680-feet high chimneys from a former coal-fired power station – now, […]

June 11 2018

Bullard: Buying Into the Electric Vehicle Future? Maybe Try Leasing It

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard By 2040, 55 percent of all new car sales, and a third of the total 1.6 billion cars worldwide, will be electric. Those are the findings from my Bloomberg New Energy Finance colleagues’ global long-term Electric Vehicle Outlook 2018. Decreasing costs, increasing range and a […]

May 29 2018

Liebreich: Vicar of Bray or Sunset Ride – Oil & Gas Faces a Decision

By Michael Liebreich Senior Contributor  Bloomberg New Energy Finance During the second half of the nineteenth century, Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, was one of the wealthiest cities in the world. “If one rubber baron bought a vast yacht,” recounted one historian, “another would install a tame lion in his villa, and a […]

May 14 2018

Bullard: Scooters and Bikes Compete for City Streets

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard Earlier this year, Santa Monica-based startup Bird rolled out an app-based fleet of dockless electric scooters in San Francisco. The city is not its first location — it has scooters in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington — nor is Bird the only scooter-share company operating there. […]