Michael Liebreich

London

Senior Contributor at Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Host at Cleaning Up. Leadership in an age of climate change.

Host @CleaningUpPod. CEO Liebreich Associates. Managing Partner Ecopragma Capital. Founder, Contributor @BloombergNEF. Ex Board TfL, Board of Trade. Olympian.

Articles

Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate reset

5 days ago | mliebreich.substack.com | Michael Liebreich

Just as I was clearing the decks to write about the need for a climate reset, for my next piece for Bloomberg, Tony Blair (my guest for Episode 38 of Cleaning Up in April 2021) stole my thunder. In the introduction to a new report from the Tony Blair Institute, he laid out his argument that the climate movement “needed a new public mandate, attainable only through a shift from protest to pragmatic policy”. So far so good, great minds, etc. Except not really.
AI data centre power and glory - an update

2 months ago | mliebreich.substack.com | Michael Liebreich

On 24 December last year, Bloomberg published a 7,000-word essay on AI that I had spent nearly six months writing, entitled Generative AI - the Power and the Glory. In it, I declared that 2024 was “the year the energy sector woke up to AI... and the year AI woke up to energy”. Within a month, with the launch of the Chinese DeepSeek-V3 model on 20 January this year, it became out-of-date. Or did it?
Are you a Londoner? Do you ever come to London on business or for leisure,…

2 months ago | linkedin.com | Michael Liebreich

Michael Liebreich Speaker, analyst, advisor, investor in the future economy. Host of Cleaning Up, podcast on leadership in an age of climate change. Managing partner, Ecopragma Capital. 1d Edited Report this post Are you a Londoner? Do you ever come to London on business or for leisure, or as a tourist? Then this post is for you. You might find the sight of a red London bus reassuring.
AI and Energy - the Power and the Glory

Jan 25, 2025 | mliebreich.substack.com | Michael Liebreich

Remember Max Headroom? Well, there's a new star in town: Mike Headroom. And he has a lot to say about AI, data centres and the future of energy. Listen now to “Generative AI, the Power and Glory”, an audio adaptation of my recent piece for BloombergNEF, on Cleaning Up. And it’s not me reading it - it’s Mike Headroom, my AI alter ego!This week’s episode of Cleaning Up is an audio adaptation of my recent piece for BloombergNEF about AI and energy, titled The Power and the Glory.
Multibillion-dollar plan to convert coal into ‘clean’ hydrogen falters

Dec 6, 2024 | linkedin.com | Michael Liebreich

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a conversation with Azeem Azhar

Dec 1, 2024 | mliebreich.substack.com | Michael Liebreich

Thoughts of Chairman MichaelThis is where I'll be posting my writings on all things clean energy, transport, finance, technology, development and net-zero related - plus no doubt some random other stuff, and maybe some guest-authored pieces. No thanks
🔮 Why AI, solar & batteries will keep getting cheaper

Nov 28, 2024 | exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Michael Liebreich

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:10:29Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This week, I sat down with to discuss the intersection of exponential technologies, energy systems and the climate crisis on his podcast Cleaning Up. I’ve known Michael nearly twenty years. I met him just after he had founded a market research firm called New Energy Finance. He was amongst the first analysing the emerging clean energy sector and I was lucky enough to join as an investor.
We live in interesting times...

Nov 19, 2024 | mliebreich.substack.com | Michael Liebreich

Today’s episode will be a bit different, covering not just Cleaning Up but also some of the other stuff I have been up to. It’s a bit longer than usual, so let me know if you like/dislike it. The news has been predictably dominated by the re-election of Donald Trump. He didn’t just squeak back into the White House, he got in with a resounding margin and Republicans also took the Senate and the House. What does it mean for clean energy and climate? Not good, but how not good?
Michael Liebreich on LinkedIn: So, this is the clean energy news of the week!* Innovative industrial…

Oct 4, 2024 | linkedin.com | Michael Liebreich

Michael Liebreich’s Post Speaker, analyst, advisor, investor in the future economy. Host of Cleaning Up, podcast on leadership in an age of climate change. Managing partner, Ecopragma Capital. 2h So, this is the clean energy news of the week!* Innovative industrial heat pump manufacturer Heaten has been acquired by funds managed by Advent International.
Programmable Hydrogels Bring Logic And Multi-stimuli Responses To Adaptive Materials

Oct 2, 2024 | zephyrnet.com | Michael Liebreich

02 年 2024 月 XNUMX 日 ( Nanowerkスポットライト) Imagine a material that doesn't just respond to one stimulus, like heat or light, but can sense multiple environmental triggers and adjust its behavior accordingly. Picture this material not only changing its shape in response but also performing logical operations-processing information like a basic computer. This capability has been elusive for years.