Welcome to the second part of my two-part article exploring the bull and bear cases for the net-zero transition. In September last year, I laid out the bear case, highlighting the Five Horsemen of the Transition that will make achieving net zero difficult, perhaps impossible. By way of reminder, these were: poor economics of clean solutions [...]Read More...| liebreich
“With possibly just days to go before the UK government announces its decision on the Redcar Hydrogen Village heating trial, rumours and misinformation about safety are swirling – many of them propagated by Northern Gas Networks (NGN) – the gas distribution company promoting the trial.” Delve into Michael’s write up of the contentious Redcar Hydrogen [...]Read More...| liebreich
The transition to a net-zero carbon economy will be straightforward: we just roll out cheap clean energy technologies, become more energy efficient every year, keep innovating and stop chopping down forests. What could be easier? The transition will also be brutally challenging: every sector of the economy will have to switch to new technologies, consumers will have to change behaviors, new supply chains will have to be built, and all this has to happen in every major economy, in just a few d...| liebreich
My guest for episode 126 of Cleaning Up with Michael Liebreich was Marco Alvera’, co-founder of clean energy project developer Zhero and CEO of TES-H2 . In our conversation, we focused on TES-H2, which is is building a terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, to import what Marco calls “eNG”, or synthetic methane made from green hydrogen. [...]Read More...| liebreich
In January this year, BloombergNEF announced that investment in the clean energy transition had broken through the $1 trillion mark in 2022, for the first time matching the total investment in fossil fuels. Just under 90% of the funds went to just two sectors: renewable energy and electric vehicles, which each attracted nearly half a [...]Read More...| liebreich