Category: Opinion

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. […]

May 4 2018

The Future of LNG

By Maggie Kuang Head of APAC LNG Bloomberg New Energy Finance The shale revolution is leading the world to a future of abundant and affordable oil and gas. The technology of liquefying natural gas (LNG) is increasingly used to ship gas produced in cost-competitive regions to where gas demand is growing but where local gas […]

April 30 2018

McCrone: Warp Speed to More Storage, Less Dark Energy, Summit 2018

By Angus McCrone Senior Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance Veterans of Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Future of Energy Summits could have been forgiven for wondering whether sometime in the last decade they stepped into a parallel universe. Who would have guessed in 2008, at the very first Summit, that at the equivalent event 10 years […]

April 23 2018

How Power Companies Can Save an Aging Japan

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard and Miho Kurosaki Two years ago, Japan passed a milestone rare in world history except in times of war, famine or natural disaster: Its population began to shrink. And not only is it shrinking, but its average age is also rising. This trend is creating […]

April 17 2018

The Bigger the Party, the Bigger the Hangover: Why European Gas Storage May Struggle to Refill this Summer

By Johana Typoltova European Gas Analyst Bloomberg New Energy Finance European gas storage inventories finished the winter season at five-year lows, over 8 billion cubic meters, or 50%, below last year’s level due to rapid gas withdrawals at the end of the season. This creates a big storage refill requirement over summer 2018, which will […]

March 13 2018

Liebreich: Beyond Three Thirds, The Road to Deep Decarbonization

By Michael Liebreich Senior Contributor  Bloomberg New Energy Finance In my BNEF Summit keynote in London last September, I talked about how far clean energy and transport had come over the last fifteen years. Where renewable energy used to be dismissed as “alternative”, I talked about the “new orthodoxy” of what I called the Three-Third […]

March 2 2018

Bullard: The Future of Smartphones Is in Your Car

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard This week’s annual Mobile World Congress comes at a turning point for the industry: 2017 was the first year in four that mobile phone sales fell. The action on the convention hall floor, combined with some nearly buried findings in one operator’s annual results, […]

February 23 2018

McKerracher: BP’s Energy Outlook and the Rising Consensus on EV Adoption

By Colin McKerracher Strategic Lead for Transport  Bloomberg New Energy Finance BP’s 2018 Energy Outlook, published this week, is a thoughtful look at how the world will produce and consume energy over the next 20 years. These big integrated exercises are difficult. They require extensive modelling, industry knowledge, collaboration and invariably some late nights as […]

February 9 2018

Clean Energy’s Year of Trumping Dangerously

By Ethan Zindler Head of Americas Bloomberg New Energy Finance A year ago, I used this space to reflect on the election of Donald J Trump as President. For many, including me, the shock was still fresh as we watched Trump take the oath of office that damp day here in Washington, the wounds opened […]