Foreign Investment and the Energy Transition: Booms, Busts, and Battlegrounds
Article from: OGEL 5 (2021), in Energy Transition
Abstract
The energy transition represents both new opportunities and new risks for foreign investors. A significant proportion of the billions of dollars of investment needed to fund the energy transition will come from the private sector, and a significant proportion of those funds will originate from foreign direct investment. For foreign investors in these new and often novel projects, there will be significant risks to navigate which can be compounded by the involvement (direct or indirect) of host States. While some of these risks are familiar and follow patterns seen in the traditional ...