Results for: solar

September 9 2021

Indonesian Solar Market Poised for Unprecedented Growth, Holds Key to Decarbonizing Energy Sector

    New report by BloombergNEF, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) reveals national solar program could attract up to $14.4B in investment and help Indonesia meet its 2025 renewable energy goal   Report shows solar tariffs in Indonesia have decreased 76% since 2015 and costs for solar could outcompete new […]

September 6 2021

BloombergNEF Launches Its 2022 Net-Zero Technology Innovation Challenges

For 2022, BNEF's New Energy Pioneers program has chosen three climate challenges to focus on and will award the Pioneers prize to applicants whose innovations have the potential to solve the following:

August 23 2021

Connecting the Dots on Diversity

The evolution in how the world generates, distributes and consume energy offers a multi-trillion dollar opportunity in coming decades. But will that opportunity be inclusive?

August 18 2021

Achieving Net-Zero by 2050, BloombergNEF’s Green Scenario: New Energy Outlook 2021

Net-zero emissions can be reached via many pathways by mid-century, but none are easy, and none are certain.

August 3 2021

Public Market Financing Lifts Renewable Energy Investment to New First-Half Year Record in 2021

  An abridged version of the Renewable Energy Investment Tracker is available here London and New York, August 3, 2021 – New investment in renewable energy projects and companies totalled $174 billion in the first half of 2021, supported by record public market financing and record levels of venture capital and private equity commitments, according […]

July 21 2021

Getting on Track for Net-Zero by 2050 Will Require Rapid Scaling of Investment in the Energy Transition Over the Next Ten Years

    BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook charts three distinct pathways for the world to reach climate neutrality by mid-century London and New York, July 21, 2021 – Achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require as much as $173 trillion in investments in the energy transition, according to BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) New Energy Outlook 2021 (NEO), […]

July 20 2021

New Report Finds G-20 Member Countries Support Fossil Fuels at Levels Untenable to Achieve Paris Agreement Goals

BloombergNEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies report reveals G-20 member countries have given more than $3.3 trillion in subsidies for coal, oil, gas, and fossil-fuel power from 2015-2019 U.N.-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, representing over $6.6 trillion assets under management, and U.N. Special Envoy Michael R. Bloomberg urge G-20 leaders to take bold action ahead of COP26 […]

June 30 2021

Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Sounds A Starting Gun

Offshore wind could become an important way to produce hydrogen at scale. The project pipeline is growing rapidly, costs are falling and non-economic factors are poised to boost uptake.

June 25 2021

Liebreich: Climate Action – It’s The Trade, Stupid

As world leaders gear up for November’s critical COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs) have been moving rapidly toward center stage. That may not be an entirely good thing.

June 14 2021

China Greenlights New Nuclear in Bid to Cut Emissions

China’s Liaoning and Jiangsu provinces kicked off construction of four nuclear plants with a total five gigawatts of capacity on May 19.