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Everything Electric Podcast

All about the business of the new energy wave with Michael Liebreich

Everything Electric Podcast

The Fully Charged Show

Leisure, Automotive, News, Tech News

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this interview Robert talks to Michael Liebreich all about the business of the new energy market. Starting back in 2004 Michael has always been at the cutting edge of doing business at the right time. Here is part of his story.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hello and welcome to the fully charged show

0:19.2

podcast now one of the tiny advantages of the C-19 pandemic is some incredibly busy, very influential

0:29.4

people are suddenly a bit easier to get hold of.

0:34.0

So today's guest is definitely one of those.

0:36.6

An amazing man I have met a few times at energy conferences in London.

0:42.1

Michael Librech, believe you me, is a force to be reckoned with an extraordinary

0:47.0

man. Michael founded New Energy Finance in 2004. In 2008, he sold the company to Bloomberg and when it then became Bloomberg New

0:58.2

Energy Finance which is a very interesting publication.

1:03.2

Since then he's got on to sit on the board of so many sustainable technology, clean transport,

1:08.9

and new energy start-ups and companies.

1:11.5

It would take me half an hour just to list them.

1:13.7

Oh and he's got an MA with a first class honors degree in engineering

1:18.6

from Cambridge University but you know haven't we all I mean there are days when I think I've taken on too much

1:28.1

but my activities pale into insignificance with his schedule.

1:33.6

But of course, not so much at the moment.

1:36.5

So it was a golden opportunity to have a chat,

1:39.4

so please welcome Michael Librik. Welcome. Michael Leibrich. In 2004, I found in a business called New Energy Finance and the thesis was that we were in the early stages of some really, really powerful long-term changes around at the time it was just around energy so the shift of

2:06.2

renewable energy the growth of wind and solar we did bio fuels and all sorts of

2:11.3

things and then that got drawn into the smart grid, storage, transport and so on.

2:18.0

The business really flourished.

2:20.0

I mean, I hit the timing absolutely spot on, grew it very rapidly 2004 to 2009 and sold it to Bloomberg.

2:29.6

So that's Michael Bloomberg's business.

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