Category: Report

Wind Turbine Prices in U.S. Plummet Faster Than Globally

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. Price falls well below $1 million per megawatt Looming end of tax credit beckons turbine-maker competition United States and global wind turbine prices by delivery date   Note: Price of contract is calculated on day of signing and quoted by date of delivery. […]

Green Bond Issuance Will Soon Pass $100 billion in 2017

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. Over $96 billion of green bonds have been issued this year Another $39 billion of green bonds are expected by year-end Annual green bond issuance by issuer/bond type Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance  Annual green bond issuance will hit triple digits for […]

Global LNG Outlook 2017

Power Prices May Scale New Heights

By Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s European Power Transition team. This article first appeared in BNEF’s ‘EU Power Weekly’ publication, available to clients on the web and on the Bloomberg Terminal. Europe might be facing another expensive winter. Two factors point to that risk. EDF’s French reactors are again under investigation, and gas storage levels are […]

Better Turbines Boost Harvest From Wind Farms

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. Improving wind turbine performance delivers cheaper power Average capacity factors now around 37%, up from 25% in 1993 Improving onshore wind capacity factors  Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance  The cost of energy from onshore wind has been tumbling in recent years, in […]

Ending Nuclear Means Germany Likely to Miss Emissions Goal

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. Decision after Fukushima disaster has helped coal plants Chance of more government action grows as 2020 target looms German nuclear, coal generation and emissions  Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance  Germany’s nuclear phaseout, brought about by Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011 after the […]

Small-Scale Solar Will Displace $2B of U.S. Power by 2025

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. Solar on U.S. homes and businesses will grow 10% a year Ratio of small-scale solar and battery capacity to total installed capacity Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance By 2025, over $2 billion worth of U.S. electricity production will change hands from traditional generators to small-scale generation […]

Traders Will Get Access to $500 Billion China Power Market

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. China commercial, industrial power use more than all of U.S. China State Grid Corporation controls 70 percent of market Potential size of China electricity spot market vs. U.S. Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance, China Electricity Council China’s power market deregulation opens up retail […]

Green bonds: 2016 in review

Green bonds issuance boomed in 2016, despite the slowdown in new clean energy investment. We look at the most important developments of the green fixed income market in the past year to understand why issuance is rocketing, and where the market could go from here. The green bonds market continues to grow exponentially, with $95.1bn […]

EU Draft Plan May Extend Coal Power, Slow Gas Growth

This article first appeared on the BNEF mobile app and the Bloomberg Terminal. New EU pollution limits to take effect in 2021 Capacity payments could help utilities upgrade coal plants Europe electricity generation from coal and gas Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance Coal generators in the European Union could finance upgrades to comply with the […]