Bloomberg vergist zich: cijfers investeringen in schone energie kloppen niet

Gepubliceerd op 14-07-2015 om 07:10

14 juli 2015 – Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) heeft zich flink vergist. De cijfers die een forse mondiale achteruitgang meldden voor de investeringen in schone energie kloppen niet. Met excuses presenteerde het bureau gisteren de juiste cijfers.

Mondiaal waren de investeringen in het tweede kwartaal van 2015 niet $ 53 miljard maar $ 73 miljard. En dat is in vergelijking met hetzelfde kwartaal van vorig jaar geen achteruitgang van 3%, maar van 0,2%.
Ook de opgegeven investeringscijfers per land kloppen niet. Zo investeerde China niet $ 15,5 mrd, maar bijna het dubbele: $ 27,9 mrd in het afgelopen kwartaal.
Blijft staan dat er bijvoorbeeld in Europa wel een forse achteruitgang in investeringen te zien is (afgelopen kwartaal, vergeleken met hetzelfde kwartaal in 2014): 23%.

Persbericht Bloomberg New Energy Finance met de gecorrigeerde cijfers
Amended figure much stronger for second quarter, with first half of 2015 only slightly down on same period of 2014
Bloomberg New Energy Finance is correcting the second quarter 2015 clean energy investment data that it released on Friday. This reflects the discovery of errors in the aggregating of project and deal-level data.
The corrected figures show that global investment in clean energy was $73.5bn in the second quarter of 2015, substantially higher than reported on Friday. This number is 0.2% down on the equivalent quarter of 2014, and takes the total for the first half of 2015 to $127.9bn, down just 3% on H1 2014.

Looking at the second quarter of 2015 specifically compared to Q2 2014, the following were key features:

Investment in China was $27.9bn, up 15% on the same quarter a year earlier.
The US invested $12.2bn, up 3% on Q2 2014.
Europe invested $12.7bn, down 23%.
India invested $2.2bn, up 75% on the same quarter last year.
Brazil invested $1bn, down 50%.
The Americas excluding the US invested $3.7bn, down 3% on Q2 2014.
Asia-Oceania excluding India and China invested $12.5bn, up 8%. Of this, Japan saw investment of $8.3bn, down 8% on the equivalent quarter last year.
Of the different technologies, solar enjoyed the highest investment, at $41.9bn in Q2 2015, up 23% on the second quarter of 2014.
Wind saw investment of $27.8bn, down 13%.
Among categories of investment, asset finance of utility-scale renewable energy projects totalled $49.5bn, down 5% on Q2 2014.
Small-scale solar projects saw investment of $20.4bn in Q2 2015, up 29% on a year earlier.
Venture capital and private equity investment was $871m, down 38% on the same quarter last year.
Public markets investment in clean energy was $4.5bn, down 9% on the equivalent quarter.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance apologises for the error and has initiated a thorough review of its release process to prevent a recurrence of this mistake.

On Friday, Bloomberg New Energy Finance made revisions to prior-year investment totals, to reflect new information. These revised numbers were not affected by the problems with the Q2 data. To recap, the revisions show that global clean energy investment in 2014 was $321.8bn, up from $269.5bn in 2013, $297.7bn in 2012 and $321bn in 2011. The revised figure for 2014 is 5.3 times the total of $60.2bn recorded 10 years earlier, in 2004.

Bronnen
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 13 april 2015: Correction to Q2 2015 clean energy investment figures