Nuclear crisis will reinvigorate focus on renewables – HSBC

The nuclear crisis in Japan will lead to a “reinvigorated” policy focus on renewable and efficiency, says investment bank HSBC.

“We expect that nuclear’s loss could be natural gas, energy efficiency and renewables’ gain, as new and old generating capacity is replaced by other low-carbon forms of power generation and energy savings,” the bank says.

HSBC says that equity markets have responded in a “reasonable” way to the crisis, with European nuclear operators losing around 8% of their value while renewable stocks globally have risen between 10% and 15% on average.

The bank says that the levelised cost of renewable energy, especially wind “could look more attractive in a post-Fukushima world.”

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