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Founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance
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In 2004, amid widespread skepticism about the commercial viability of renewables, he launched New Energy Finance from a single London office, without venture capital, relying instead on granular data collection and rigorous financial modeling to prove wind and solar could compete on cost. That startup became Bloomberg New Energy Finance in 2009, reshaping how banks, utilities, and governments assess clean energy risk and opportunity. His signature contribution wasn’t just forecasting capacity growth, but building the first widely trusted benchmark for levelized cost of electricity across technologies and geographies, enabling $1.5 trillion in clean infrastructure investment decisions over the next decade. He’s equally known for blunt assessments: calling hydrogen ‘a solution in search of a problem’ in 2017, or warning in 2022 that net-zero pledges were outpacing credible transition plans by a factor of three. His lens is relentlessly financial, not ideological, grounded in balance sheets, grid interconnection queues, and subsidy phase-outs.
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