October 29, 2018 by Kathy Hipple

Nearly 1,400 new coal power plant developments are planned or under construction in 59 countries that would add 33% to coal power capacity. But the risks of investing in such projects are growing, and many banks and investors are looking to move away from coal. To help them, non-governmental organisation Urgewald has created a database of the world’s top 120 coal plant developers, says Kathy Hipple of the Institute for Energy Economics and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: climate change, coal power, financing

June 15, 2018 by Kathy Hipple

The parallels between what happened to the Yellow Pages business and what’s happening to the fossil fuel industry today are striking, writes Kathy Hipple, financial analyst at IEEFA (Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis). The oil and gas industry may not collapse as rapidly as the Yellow Pages did, it will go the way of the shrinking coal industry unless it learns from the failure of the Yellow Pages to adapt. Courtesy: IEEFA  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, diversification, energy transition, financing, natural gas, oil, renewables