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Electricity Market Report – January 2022

iea
1/18/2022

The year 2021 placed exceptional demands on electricity markets around the world. Strong economic growth, combined with colder winters and warmer summers, boosted global electricity demand by more than 6% – the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The fast rebound in overall energy demand strained supply chains for coal and natural gas, pushing up wholesale electricity prices. Despite the impressive growth of renewable power, electricity generation from coal an…

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ScottishPower says £500m investment plan puts it at ‘forefront’ of UK solar industry

Business Green
1/14/2022

ScottishPower has today hailed its move “to the forefront of the UK’s solar industry”, after agreeing a £500m investment in projects that are set to collectively power the equivalent of 220,000 homes.

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Cities are murky on how they define ‘green infrastructure’: analysis

Smart Cities Dive
1/14/2022

The empirical study is the first of its kind, according to the New York-based Cary Institute, and it is part of a multiyear project assessing green infrastructure’s role as “a universal good.” Researchers aim to analyze whether urban ecological services are provided equally to all urbanresidents, keeping in mind concerns that some infrastructure programs that cities plan accelerate gentrification and housing displacement, Grabowski said. …

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U.S. Energy Dept opens recruitment for 1,000 jobs in clean energy

Thomson Reuters Foundation News
1/14/2022

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department confirmed on Thursday it will hire 1,000 employees to become part of a new Clean Energy Corps using funding authorized in last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law.

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Catalyst Capital Has £300M That Says Battery Storage Will Be A Big New Asset Class

Bisnow
1/14/2022

Rapid changes in society are creating new real estate asset classes almost every week, from last-mile logistics and film studios to mini data centres and dark kitchens. The need to cut carbon emissions is adding a new sector to that list: battery storage. …

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5 Steps to Adjust Valuations Based on Carbon Performance (Part 2)

Medium – Logan Soya
1/13/2022

These are early days in the rapidly evolving landscape of climate finance and carbon performance pricing. While doing research on this topic, I found both overly simplistic anecdotes and hyper-complex models that require excel acrobatics — but nothing in between. I hope this article can give readers a practical starting point for carbon performance pricing in any valuation process.

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These windows are see-through solar panels

Fast Company
1/13/2022

In a recently built office building in Boulder, Colorado, there are solar panels on the roof. But the building also has one of the world’s first installations of solar-window technology—transparent panels that look like ordinary windows, but also invisibly generate energy.

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EY CEO Survey: ESG Emerging as Priority Area for M&A, Capital Allocation

ESG Today
1/13/2022

Global professional services firm EY announced the publication of its inaugural EY 2022 CEO Outlook Survey, examining the views of over 2,000 global CEOs into the prospects, challenges and risks facing their organizations. As confidence has returned, according to the survey, the study highlights the CEO’s plans to accelerate growth and transform their businesses, with ESG emerging as one of the key focus areas for investment and M&A.

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Growing pains’: BNEF warns carbon offset market faces uncertain long term outlook

Business Green
1/13/2022

Demand for carbon offset credits is set to soar in the coming decades as companies look to deliver on their net zero targets and governments seek to encourage investment in natural carbon sinks and negative emission technologies. But uncertainties around the supply of credible credits and the regulatory regime for the sector are making it hard to predict how the market will evolve.

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Property podcast: Technology can fix “antiquated” construction industry and enable Government to meet net zero targets

Property Week
1/13/2022

Mark Farmer, chief executive of Cast and Chris Bone, co-founder of digital ConTech firm Modulous, sat down with Andrew Teacher from Blackstock Consulting in the latest episode of BossCast to discuss how construction is getting on five years after the Farmer Review warned the sector must “modernise or die”.

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