Not if low-carbon transformation is at the heart of the government’s industrial strategy. […]
Prospect: Will we miss the Department for Energy and Climate Change?
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UnHerd: $10 a barrel for oil? The age of the electric car is closer than you think
Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Yamani famously predicted that “the Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” […]
BNEF: In Energy and Transportation, Stick it to the Orthodoxy!
Those of you who attended this month’s Bloomberg New Energy Finance EMEA Summit in London will have witnessed “Breaking Clean”, the last of my State of the Industry keynotes. […]
Linkedin: How UK Conservatives can win by leading the shift to clean energy and transportation
In 1911 Winston Churchill, the new First Lord of the Admiralty began to switch the Navy’s most powerful battleships from coal to oil power. He did so in the face of withering scepticism from the naval establishment. Just a few years before, Lord Selborne, one of his predecessors, had thundered that “the substitution of oil […]
Medium: 2017 – It’s a new year and time to face reality
A very creative piece of writing from the Clean Energy Guru himself – but which way will you read it? Just make sure you read it to the end! […]
BNEF: A Year of hectic change & off-target predictions
Every January, Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Chief Editor Angus McCrone and Michael Liebreich don their Nostradamus hats and try to predict what the coming year will bring. This is a review of their 2016 predictions. […]
The Guardian: Trump’s influence on the future of clean energy is less clear than you think
The president-elect is a political novice whose energy plan doesn’t account for the economic reality of coal and renewable energy. […]
Financial Times: Green industrial strategy is not about subsidies
A letter written by Michael Liebreich to the FT in response to an article published by Jonathan Ford “How subsidy culture keeps Britain’s green industry in the black”, Inside Business, October 31st. […]
LinkedIn: London in 2050: An Environment Fit for Londoners
The success of London in 2050 will be measured by its environment. By this I don’t mean just the quality of its air, or whether it has retained its biodiversity, important though those are: I mean the overall quality of life for Londoners. Will they experience the city as spacious, efficient, healthy, and resilient? Or will they experience it as overcrowded, dysfunctional, stressful and insecure? […]
Reaction: Hinkley go-ahead has killed our industrial strategy
History will judge Theresa May harshly for not killing this train-wreck of a project when she had the chance […]
