Liebreich: Water may Top Up the Case for Renewables
So here we are in the final two months of a U.S. general election, and energy has become a “wedge issue,” separating the two candidates. Mitt Romney’s position is that he will remove the subsidies on clean energy and help the oil and gas industry make the U.S. energy independent by 2020. The president’s position […]
BNEF Chief Executive Michael Liebreich VIP Comment: water may top up the case for renewables
So here we are in the final two months of a U.S. general election, and energy has become a “wedge issue,” separating the two candidates. Mitt Romney’s position is that he will remove the subsidies on clean energy and help the oil and gas industry make the U.S. energy independent by 2020. The president’s position is that “all of the above” energy sources are needed, including continuing support for clean energy.
Leading the Energy Transition: Bringing Carbon Capture & Storage to Market
“Leading the Energy Transition: Bringing Carbon Capture and Storage to Market” is the first in a series of reports to be undertaken by the SBC Energy Institute on the energy transition in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance. It highlights the status of current technologies, identifies needs in research and development, analyses the situation of demonstration and deployment projects, and gives perspectives on the future of both concerned technologies and CCS projects.
Liebreich: Clean Energy’s Puberty Years – Bewildering and Irreversible
CLEAN ENERGY’S PUBERTY YEARS – BEWILDERING AND IRREVERSIBLE Download the PDF here. “Between the idea And the reality Between the motion and the act Falls the Shadow” TS Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925 These are difficult years for the clean energy sector. A few years ago the industry seemed to be entering a golden age […]
VIP Comment: clean energy’s puberty years – bewildering and irreversible
CLEAN ENERGY’S PUBERTY YEARS – BEWILDERING AND IRREVERSIBLE “Between the idea And the reality Between the motion and the act Falls the Shadow” TS Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925 These are difficult years for the clean energy sector. A few years ago the industry seemed to be entering a golden age of limitless growth and infinite potential, the arrival of a new Aquarian age of progressive environmental business. Barack Obama prophesied that his election as president would herald the moment “when the rise of the oceans would begin to slow, when our climate would begin to heal”.
Liebreich: Here Comes the “Rest of the World”
HERE COMES THE “REST OF THE WORLD” Download the PDF here. It is almost the half-way mark in 2012, and time to take stock of how the year is progressing so far for clean energy. We all knew this would be a difficult 12 months for the sector, with subsidies under pressure, extraordinarily cheap natural […]
McCrone: Wave and Tidal Stream – Will it Always be Jam Tomorrow?
WAVE AND TIDAL STREAM – WILL IT ALWAYS BE JAM TOMORROW? Download the PDF here. By Angus McCrone Chief Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance At Billia Croo on Orkney’s main island, off the north coast of Scotland, lush green fields slope down to the Atlantic, populated by plenty of well-fed cows and one utility-scale bull […]
BNEF Chief Editor Angus McCrone VIP Comment: wave and tidal stream – will it always be jam tomorrow?
WAVE AND TIDAL STREAM - WILL IT ALWAYS BE JAM TOMORROW? By Angus McCrone Chief Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance At Billia Croo on Orkney’s main island, off the north coast of Scotland, lush green fields slope down to the Atlantic, populated by plenty of well-fed cows and one utility-scale bull with a ring through its nose. More importantly, there is also a view unique in the world clean energy sector – three wave power devices, each very different in appearance, parked out at sea.
2012 Solar Leadership Forum Results Book
Executive Summary The solar industry today is simultaneously troubled by the losses being incurred by manufacturers, and elated by the opening and growth of new markets for cheap solar panels. Bloomberg New Energy Finance convened its 2012 Solar Leadership Forum in tropical Singapore, a hub of the new south-east Asian frontier for both solar manufacturing and project development. We brought together 56 industry participants representing 11 countries, and including manufacturers, project developers and financiers, sovereign wealth funds and development agencies. The aim was to work with the Thought Leaders to explore and distill what can be done to expand the solar industry and bring it back into profit.
Q2 2012 Clean Energy Policy & Market Briefing, prepared for Clean Energy Solutions Center
Small solar plays big role in sustaining Q2 investment New clean energy investment rebounded 24% to $56bn in Q2 2012 from an abysmal first quarter of the year, thanks largely to the growing market for small-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems. Plummeting renewable energy equipment costs showed signs of stabilising, at least temporarily, for the first time in several years. And policy-makers in the EU continued scaling back subsidies just as their counterparts in Japan were stepping up support for the sector. In this second edition of the Clean Energy Policy & Market Briefing, Bloomberg New Energy Finance highlights Q2 2012's key trends and policy developments.