Videos

October 15 2015

Liebreich State of the Industry Keynote BNEF EMEA Summit 2015 – Video

BNEF Chairman of the Advisory Board, Michael Liebreich gives his ‘state of the clean energy industry’ keynote at BNEF’s Future of Energy EMEA Summit in London, October 2015. View the slides of the presentation here.

September 25 2015

BNEF’s Colin McKerracher on VW Scandal

VW has admitted to deceiving emission tests in the US affecting 482,000 US vehicles going back to 2008. BNEF’s Colin McKerracher joined Bloomberg TV’s  ‘The Pulse’ to discuss the scandal and its effect on diesel cars and the future of electric vehicles. For background, the company says that up to 11m cars globally may be […]

August 11 2015

What Kyushu’s Restart of Sendai Reactor Means for Japan

Japan’s first nuclear reactor to pass new safety rules implemented after the 2011 Fukushima disaster will start today. Kyushu Electric Power will begin bringing online the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai facility today, start power generation as early as Aug. 14 and return it to normal operations next month. Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Ali […]

August 5 2015

Who wins, who loses on Obama emissions regulations?

President Barack Obama will issue a sweeping set of regulations to cut U.S. power-plant emissions, the biggest carbon-pollution control effort by the world’s biggest economy that pressures other countries heading into global climate talks in Paris later this year. Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Stephen Munro reports on “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg)

July 8 2015

BNEF’s Claire Curry: is green algae a potential bio jet fuel?

The future of Japan’s biofuel industry may be pond scum. Or more specifically, green algae that’s swirling around in Euglena Co.’s tanks on the tropical island of Okinawan. “Airlines will have an incentive to use biofuel even if it’s somewhat more expensive,” said Euglena’s CEO Mitsuru Izumo. “We’re now working on increasing the scale of […]

June 23 2015

SoftBank plans $20B India solar venture

SoftBank is investing in a green energy project in India. The company will tie up with Bharti Enterprises and Foxconn in a $20B solar power venture. Bloomberg’s Ashish Sethia discusses the project on “Trending Business.”

June 23 2015

Expert Roundtable: New Energy Outlook 2015

The BNEF team shares its most valuable takeaways from the New Energy Outlook (NEO) 2015, our annual long-term forecast for the global power sector. Drawing on the expertise of over 65 technology, economics and policy specialists around the world, NEO captures our best assessment of how energy markets will evolve over the next 25 years.

May 13 2015

Green Bonds & Debt Capital Markets: BNEF Summit 2015 Panel

(Bloomberg) — Suzanne Buchta, global co-head of green bonds at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jeffrey Eckel, chief executive of Hannon Armstrong, Kyung-Ah Park, head of environmental markets at Goldman Sachs Group, and Peter Sweatman, chief executive of Climate & Strategy Partners, participate in a panel discussion about green bonds and debt capital markets. Bloomberg’s […]

April 28 2015

FSN – South Africa ‘shining light’ at BNEF Energy Summit

Despite all the concern about global warming, the clean energy market still faces some challenges; among them, big falls in the price of oil. Global investment in renewables fell an estimated 15% in the first quarter, compared to 2014, with spending down to its lowest level in two years. But while deals in big markets […]

April 22 2015

Summit 2015 Highlights

The 8th annual BNEF Future of Energy Summit was held on April 13-15 in NY. Over 1200 attendees joined 150 speakers covering key areas for the future of utilities.