Say, What Does The Fed’s Rate Cut Mean For “Green” Energy?

The Huffington Post makes an interesting admission

What The Fed’s Interest Rate Cut Means For Green Energy

The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to start cutting interest rates could bolster green energy investments, which took a hit as the U.S. central bank drastically increased the cost of borrowing money over the past two years in a scramble to tamp down post-pandemic inflation.

At its 2 p.m. meeting, the Fed slashed interest rates by 50 basis points ? one-half a percentage point ? delivering an even larger cut than the quarter of a percentage point Wall Street forecasters initially expected.

But analysts said the market needs rates to come down further to reverse the project delays and cancellations slowing the global transition away from fossil fuels, as well as warned that many emerging clean energy sectors ? from next-generation nuclear power to hydrogen fuel ? require additional support through government policy changes.

“It’s not going to do a huge amount to help the projects that have struggled with the cost of debt,” Peter Martin, the chief economist at the British-based energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, told HuffPost. “It’s a bit of a psychological boost in terms of showing we are about to close the chapter on those really aggressive rate hikes.”

First, like the cultists will allow next gen nuclear power. Hydrogen is silly, because it put the number one greenhouse gas, water vapor, at ground level, leading to much higher artificial heating at ground level.

Second, it’s interesting that investment in “clean” energy is stifled because of the higher rates. If it was so darned necessary to Save The Planet From Boiling, you’d think investors would stream towards it. Who would be dropping tons of money into it, especially since the federal government and certain states are giving out tons of taxpayer money for these projects.

By October, the International Energy Agency warned that higher rates were spiking the cost of building all kinds of clean energy projects. Before the end of that month, the world’s largest offshore turbine developer, the Danish giant Ørsted, canceled its high-profile wind farm off the coast of New Jersey. A month later, the reactor startup NuScale abandoned its landmark project to build the United States’ first small modular atomic power units.

But, there are no reports of big fossil fuels projects having been cancelled due to the rates, because those companies involved know that there will be a return on investment. Weird, eh?

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