{"id":3966,"date":"2014-09-02T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T00:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:30:39","slug":"solar-technology-revolution-change-way-access-energy-ubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-technology-revolution-change-way-access-energy-ubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar technology revolution coming: UBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3970\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/solar-revolution.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/solar-revolution.jpg\" alt=\"fist in air and solar panels\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Those greenie lefties at UBS bank think a solar revolution is coming.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The dominant role that renewables \u2014 particularly solar \u2014 will play in the future of our energy consumption seems to have finally sunk in at the Big End of Town. In Europe at least. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/neo.ubs.com\/shared\/d1V0tO4LmKMZuB3\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from financial giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubs.com\/au\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\">UBS <\/a>of Zurich is predicting nothing less than a solar technology revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-hitting briefing paper for investors and clients questions the long term relevance of large-scale coal-fired power plants by predicting their demise within 10-20 years. It says that solar energy and storage will be<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cdisruptive technologies for the electricity system\u201d and that \u201csteeply declining battery and solar system costs will enable multiple new applications\u201d in the energy sector.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The findings are aimed at the bank\u2019s big investors, which makes it all the more worrying for those with significant investments in coal and oil. Indeed the bank\u2019s message would surely have sent a chill down the spine of Big Fossil Fuel here in Oz as well as around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially UBS, one of the largest and most powerful banks in the world, says the revolution will occur with or without government subsidies. While the report is aimed at the European energy market, it has increasing relevance in Australia as all semblance of support for renewables is rapidly eroded.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the bank\u2019s recommendations has been the falling price of solar in Europe. This to the extent that it will become cost effective for households and businesses to generate their own power and store surplus energy \u2014 with or without government support.<\/p>\n<p>However UBS is not just noting the inevitable shift towards a renewable energy future but a change in the way we access our energy. According to the bank this shift will occur with solar \u2014 in combination with electric cars and battery storage \u2014 at the vanguard of the change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPower is no longer something that is exclusively produced by huge, centralised units owned by large utilities,\u201d it predicts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2025, everybody will be able to produce and store power. And it will be green and cost competitive, ie, not more expensive or even cheaper than buying power from utilities,\u201d say the authors, who urge their financial clients to \u201cjoin the revolution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The importance of the bank\u2019s briefing paper cannot be overstated. With government subsidies being phased out in many countries, it will be the banks that give the go-ahead or otherwise to large scale renewable energy schemes. In other words the buck stops with them. The banks will only back renewable schemes (such as solar farms) if they can see a financial return.<\/p>\n<p>The UBS paper \u2014 so supportive of solar, battery and electric technology \u2014 will therefore herald a shift in thinking by the conservative financial institutions towards becoming willing partners in potentially lucrative renewable schemes such as solar farms.<\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t be long before this thinking \u2014 and financial backing &#8212; from the Big End of Town laps up on to our shores.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t sound like a solar technology revolution, nothing does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dominant role that renewables \u2014 particularly solar \u2014 will play in the future of our energy consumption seems to have finally sunk in at the Big End of Town. In Europe at least. A recent report from financial giant UBS of Zurich is predicting nothing less than a solar technology revolution. 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