Author Archive: Norman Waite
Energy Finance Analyst Norman Waite has analysed, assessed, and distributed both public and private financial instruments in Asia, mainly to hedge fund investors. He has covered US waste management and Asian paper and forest products as an equity research analyst.
IEEFA: Japanese and Korean investment in risky PJM gas-fired power calls for strategic decisions
Investing in gas-fired power plant development faces substantial climate risk
2 December 2020 (IEEFA): Japanese and Korean investors should reassess the growing financial risks to both their new and existing gas-fired power projects in the United States’ Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) system, finds a new report by Norman Waite at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The report, Growing Risks to PJM Network’s […]
IEEFA: Canadian assessment of LNG ‘rising tide’ would drown balance sheets in red ink
Hope springs eternal for Chinese demand but reality suggests bleak forecast for new projects
October 19, 2020 (IEEFA)— The Conference Board of Canada, an Ottawa-based research organization, has doubled down on a bad hand, according to an analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. The Conference Board’s report, A Rising Tide: The Economic Impact of B.C.’s Liquified Natural Gas Industry, claims an expansion of the British […]
IEEFA: AIA too important to lag global insurers in coal investment, divestment, and exclusion
AIA must back their climate pledges
21 December 2020 (IEEFA Asia): Major insurer AIA still holds anywhere between US $4 – 6 billion in coal and coal-fired power assets that if stranded will massively reduce wealth for investors and despite pledging its commitment to three significant global climate accords according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and […]