Beverly Medina
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

There is one bit of good news here: although policy setbacks happen, energy efficiency is where the money is, and investors know that. I attended a massive international power conference this past December, just a month after the election and all of the uncertainty that came with it. My big takeaway was that even though the short-term future of renewables is in question, investors are not interested in short-term futures. Typically power projects have return periods that are on the order of decades. The people privately financing some of these big power projects are not so interested in what’ll happen in the next four or eight years — they want to know what’s going to be profitable in the long run, and that’s almost unilaterally renewables.

Granted, it would help if the administration were on board. But from a strictly financial perspective, reasonable investors know where the money is going to be 20 or 30 years down the line.

    Beverly Medina

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