Results for: solar

November 1 2016

H2 2016 LCOE: Giant fall in generating costs from offshore wind

View this press release in PDF. Competitive bidding for projects has driven global levelised costs of electricity from offshore wind down 22% to a benchmark estimate of $126 per megawatt-hour in H2 2016 London, New York and Shanghai, 1 November 2016 – Auction programmes in Netherlands and Denmark, in which developers bid for projects at […]

November 1 2016

Financing India’s clean energy transition

India’s energy system faces the triple challenge of meeting growing demand, cutting pollution and offering more than 300m people not connected to the power grid access to modern energy. The government has set the target of building 175GW of renewable energy by 2022, primarily solar and wind, and mandated the rapid electrification of more than […]

November 1 2016

India making strides on clean energy targets

View this press release in PDF. View the full report here. India is on track to install more than 10GW of renewables per year from 2017 as large-scale renewables, rooftop solar and off-grid sectors show impressive growth New Delhi, London, New York and Shanghai, 1 November 2016 – India has now got the third biggest […]

October 25 2016

McCrone and Liebreich: Two setbacks for clean energy – or times a-changin’?

By Angus McCrone, Chief Editor and Michael Liebreich, Chairman of the Advisory Board Bloomberg New Energy Finance   Two big, disconcerting clean energy stories hit the headlines in the last month. The first was our report that global investment in the third quarter of 2016 was down 43 percent on the same period a year earlier; […]

October 10 2016

Summer lull in Europe, Asia slowdown make for weak clean energy investment in third quarter

View this press release in PDF. View the downloadable fact pack here. Highlights of Q3 included two $1bn early-stage financings for Chinese electric vehicle companies    London and New York, 10 October 2016 – Global clean energy investment had its weakest quarter since 2013 between July and September this year, under the impact of a […]

October 7 2016

How can pay-as-you-go solar be financed?

This white paper was developed by Bloomberg New Energy Finance in partnership with:       Pay-as-you-go solar companies are the start-up community’s proposed answer to the challenge of 1.2bn people living outside the reach of the electricity grid. To scale, they need debt capital. Lots of it. Some operators are creating structured finance products […]

September 26 2016

McCrone: If interest rates turn, clean energy will find it tougher

By Angus McCrone Chief Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance   The last time U.S. interest rates were on a sustained upward trend was just over 10 years ago, in summer 2006. George W Bush was president, ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ by Shakira was at the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and […]

August 22 2016

Liebreich and McCrone: Electric vehicles – It’s not just about the car

By Michael Liebreich, Chairman of the Advisory Board and Angus McCrone, Chief Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance   One of the key characteristics of complex systems, such as the world’s energy and transport sectors, is that when they change it tends not to be a linear process. They flip from one state to another in a way […]

August 22 2016

Obama Rule Could Take Wind Out of Renewable Power on Public Land

It was supposed to be the largest wind farm in North America, with 1,000 turbines spinning above 320,000 acres of southern Wyoming. But after investing more than $50 million and nearly a decade seeking approval to build a wind farm on public lands, the Power Company of Wyoming’s landmark project is still tied up in […]

August 11 2016

BNEF’s Zindler on the industry impact of a potential Tesla-SolarCity deal

Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Ethan Zindler and Bloomberg’s Cory Johnson discuss the industry impact of a potential deal between SolarCity and Tesla. They speak with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)