"I've got a two-year pipeline of projects in R & D," Mr. Goodnight says.
Thaim claims: What is missing is a pipeline of projects, of bankable investments opportunities.
Brent Cheshire, chairman of the offshore wind developer Dong Energy UK, said: "This gives us the confidence to move forward with our future pipeline of projects".
"The risk for BrightSource is that they have a hard time building a new pipeline" of projects, said Shayle Kann, managing director for solar at GTM Research.
To this end, a 2012 independent review by Sir John Armitt suggested that a cross-party infrastructure body is needed to maintain a steady pipeline of projects into the future.
What is missing, in many countries, are the policies, institutions and financial partners necessary to generate a pipeline of projects such as wind farms, bus-rapid-transit systems, or geothermal power plants.
It hopes that laying a pipeline of projects now will help to cut costs by £2 billion to £3 billion a year.The government's new plan is designed to get investment back on track.
Cynthia Carroll, the chief executive, talked up the company's pipeline of projects in Latin America, despite the delays it is suffering in getting planning and environmental permits at Minas Rio, a proposed iron-ore mine in Brazil.
Expanding Olympic Dam, one of the world's largest known copper deposit and largest uranium source, was one of three megaprojects that were due to go to the BHP board for final approval by December in an $80 billion pipeline of projects that BHP had recently warned were likely to be slowed.
The difference is that game makers tend to be small and independent, with neither the Hollywood studios' big pipeline of projects to smooth out the business bumps nor backing from the television stations and book publishers that are the studios' sister firms.
"The pipeline of projects has increased significantly.
