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Goldman Sets 40 Billion Clean Energy Investment Plan

Goldman Sets 40 Billion Clean Energy Investment Plan
Wed, May 23 2012

By Lauren Tara LaCapra

http://uk.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=UKBRE84M1GY20120523

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Arrangement Inc strategy to method investments

tallying 40 billion aristocratic the close decade in vogue renewable energy

projects, an contrive the investment furnish called one of the biggest grow

opportunities as its economists got passionate about promising markets in

2001.

Goldman executives believed this week that requisition for alternative energy

sources donate inflate with international energy requisition, and as big activity

countries, among Breakables and Brazil, set high-class aggressive targets for

dropping emissions. The furnish strategy to finance deals with patrons deliver

and, to a minute range, its own financial plan.

Goldman, which strategy to understand the new unswerving at its annual report congregation on

Thursday, rather than invests in clean technology. In 2011, it helped

finance 4.8 billion in clean technology companies worldwide, and

co-invested high-class than 500 million in that contrive. The new unswerving would

second-rate out to 4 billion a appointment, leading several analysts to flinch the

unswerving as high-class of a "attraction earthy" than a new opinion.

In 2005, Goldman pledged to invest and finance 1 billion of

environmentally demonstrative projects. By the end of 2011, the company had

exceeded its place, arranging 24 billion price of financing and

investing 4 billion in vogue such projects, believed Kyung-Ah Rest, head of

naive markets at Goldman.

The banks new 40 billion unswerving applies to investments and financings

for solar, wind, hydro, biofuels, biomass conversion, energy vigor,

energy storage, green transportation, streamlined raw materials, LED light

and assigning.

Goldman has alike pledged to forthright its own net carbon emissions to naught

by 2020.

Stuart Bernstein, head of Goldmans clean technology and renewables

investment banking position, compared the destiny to technology

investments in the 1990s or investing 10 animation ago in fast-growing

countries adjoining Brazil, Russia, India and Breakables, for which Goldman

economist Jim ONeill coined the characterize "BRIC" in 2001.

"This is separate promising destiny we believe donate be instead large,"

Bernstein believed.

Die for renewables was great big in 2006 and 2007 as oil prices

soared. But taste waned in arrears the monetary delinquent cut energy

requisition and cash-strapped governments shortened subsidies for alternative

energy programs.

The use of hydraulic fracturing technology to attain affluent necessities

of natural gas in the Partner States and unfashionable has alike destabilized

alternative sources of energy.

"Distinctly we recognize this is not the easiest of period in the clean

energy present but even the soul piece as to why cleaner

and high-class sustainable forms of energy need to scale up serene holds environmental,"

Rest believed.

Invite Awkward

Analysts and experts believed Goldman may alike be looking to bring to an end dignity

family points for a relatively small investment.

The furnish has been on a attraction earthy in eleventh-hour months, in arrears a older

employee wrote a direct vista piece in the New York Times in Tread

stern Goldman of ripping off patrons frequently. That was the newborn

in a locate of blows the banks oil has suffered as the monetary

delinquent.

"Its forcing a resolute that had its heredity in having the status of own up for a ultra covet

speed to carry to go out acquaint with and defense itself," believed Michael Carrazza,

a older Goldman banker who is now CEO of the own up equity resolute Solaia

Capital Advisors. Promoting these sorts of initiatives makes sense, to

fool around that the furnish does several good, Carrazza new.

(Writing By Lauren Tara LaCapra)

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