A perfect storm for green energy stocks in 2024?

What if the green energy boom and bust cycle has nothing to do with green energy at all? And what if the conditions that gave rise to an extraordinary boom in clean energy stocks in 2020 and 2021 are about to reappear in 2024?

Back to the future: of energy

Last week the UK government announced that it would authorise the construction of a handful of new, gas-fired power plants. While the government claims that it is still fully committed to its ambitious net-zero plans, it pointed out that, due to the unexpectedly poor performance of both wind and solar, in particular for base power production, more traditional, backup capacity was necessary.

The three-body problem that’ll give oil and gas a new lease on life

Shell argued that investment in renewable energy is falling short of what is needed to reach net zero by 2050. Far short. Because of this, investment in fossil fuels need to increase.