Liam Denning, Columnist

Unlike Peak Oil, Peaker Gas Has a Future

New BNEF forecasts suggest the fuel can be a bridge to cleaner sources.

June 20, 2018 at 3:03 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Like a bridge to the future.
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance has just released its annual tome of forecasts. The short story is that wind and solar power are getting cheaper and we will all be using more of them — a lot more, and relatively soon:

Not the most encouraging forecast for coal, obviously. Natural gas, though, is a bit more nuanced.