Crossroads: The Infrastructure Podcast

With renewables development accelerating to meet increasing US load growth, investors require capital to invest in greenfield projects and a great number of assets are coming to market to recycle capital. Rahm Orenstein, Managing Director of Ascend Energy Exchange (Ascend AEX) joins Crossroads to share how the nascent M&A advisory wing of Ascend Analytics, is committed to vetting those project...

After topping Infralogic's 1H24 rankings report for renewables financing, Santander's Head of Energy Structured Finance for EMEA, Bart White, joins the Crossroads podcast to share his thoughts on the market. The Spain-based bank is mandated on a wide variety of sector financing and M&A transactions and White shared his thoughts about the current state of the market, the financeability of new t...

Milbank partner Allan Marks joins Infralogic's Crossroads podcast, to discuss how the 2024 election could impact growth in the US renewables sector. He shares his perspectives on how the next president of the United States could impact the legislative agenda, federal agencies and their ongoing efforts to decarbonize.

Deal Rocket, an energy project development accelerator from Siemens Energy, is currently engaging potential LPs, GPs and development partners. Infralogic's Senior Reporter Onofrio Castiglia sat down with Raj Lall, director of private equity and venture lead for the program, to discuss near-term opportunities, the market outlook and the group's investment thesis. #alternativeenergy #gas #startups #...

Hamish Lea-Wilson, Head of Europe at Igneo Infrastructure Partners, and Michael Ryder, a Partner and Co-Head of the Igneo team in North America, appear on Infralogic's Crossroads podcast to discuss data centers, the energy transition for rail and the offshore wind market with senior reporter Liam Ford. Lea-Wilson and Ryder discuss how Igneo's digital infrastructure company US Signal and the firm's...

The New York Energy and Research Development Authority's Offshore Wind Director, Greg Lampman, joins Crossroads to discuss the current state of the US offshore wind sector, and New York's plans to develop 9 GW of offshore capacity by 2035.

Ted Brandt, founder and CEO of Marathon Capital, discusses the state of the renewable energy industry, including growing concerns about what a Republican administration would mean for the sector.

Richard Dovere, the founder and CEO of DispatchEnergy, joined host Andrew Vitelli to discuss his new firm and explain why he believes distributed generation has a role to play in the energy transition.

Marathon Capital's Matt Shanahan joins the Crossroads podcast to discuss the outlook for the renewable energy sector, and the changing role of tax equity financing.

Following its recent presidential election, Mexico is facing several energy challenges, including declining oil and gas production, a need to increase exploration activity, a high dependence on gasoline imports, a constrained power supply and public pressure to transition to renewable energy. All this is occurring as domestic demand continues to grow through the decade, Adrian Lara, principal anal...

Robert Poole, Directory of Transportation Policy at the Reason Foundation, talks about findings from the recently released 2024 Annual Privatization Report. Mr. Poole discusses some key trends in infrastructure fund investment, pension fund investment, and greenfield P3s, and what impact those trends may have this year.

On this week's edition of Crossroads, the infrastructure podcast, CRC-IB partner and managing director, Gary Durden joins the podcast to discuss how the tax credit transfer market is fueling the expansion of the US renewable energy sector.

Tiger Infrastructure Founder and CEO Emil Henry joins Crossroads: The infrastructure podcast to share the thinking behind his firm's "growth infrastructure" investment strategy. Tiger has committed capital to companies and assets in the digital infrastructure, energy transition, and transportation sectors across the Americas and Europe since being founded in 2010. Emil shares his thoughts on the s...

Don Dimitrievich, a senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Energy Infrastructure Credit at Nuveen, discusses the challenges to the renewable energy sector and the continuing role of conventional power with Infralogic News Editor, Energy Americas Andrew Vitelli.

Infralogic's Chuck Stanley sat down with Harvard Business School Climate Fellow Gunther Glenk to discuss green hydrogen's potential role decarbonizing the economy.

The digital infra sector is at an inflection point. The massive scale at which data centers must now be built to accomodate AI and other data demanding applications is staggering. Project officials are weighing project finance to fund these projects while hedging risk with their partners. Fiber-optic companies are also assessing the financing mechanism to build backhaul and middle-mile routes. The...

The Crossroads podcast had a chance to catch up with Partners Group Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Business Development, Infrastructure, Irene Mavroyannis, to look at various GP trends in the infra market. Top of mind, Mavroyannis looks at why some GPs have shifted their strategy focus on the mega capitalization space over the last few years and what it has meant in terms of performance....

Qualitas Energy re-entered the US renewables sector this year with the acquisition of Heelstone Renewable Energy, more than 10 years after Qualitas sold its previous US renewables platform. Óscar Pérez, a partner at Qualitas Energy, joins News Editor, Energy Americas Andrew Vitelli to discuss why now was the right time to re-enter the sector. #USrenewables #ira #inflationreductionact

In the latest episode of Crossroads, the Infrastructure Podcast, Senior Policy Reporter Chuck Stanley speaks with Alex Leung, UBS Asset Management’s head of infrastructure research and strategy, about the 2024 Infrastructure Outlook. With the major macroeconomic shocks in recent years likely in the rearview, and an asset class that is impacted far more by long-term trends than short-term volatilit...

Will Smales, a partner and the chief investment officer for the global infrastructure manager Morrison, joins Infralogic New Editor, Energy Americas Andrew Vitelli to discuss trends in the sector including the intersection of digitalization and decarbonization. #Decarbonization #digitalization #InflationReductionAct

Bill Green, managing partner of Climate Adaptive Infrastructure, joins News Editor Andrew Vitelli to discuss his assessment of the energy transition and his firm's approach to climate investing.

In the latest edition of Infralogic’s Crossroads podcast, Infralogic Senior Research Analyst Emma Pigram, with Danielle Valois and Gabriela Bezerra-Fischer, of majority female-led Brazilian law-firm Trench Rossi, talk about the future of Brazil’s fossil fuels in the current climate of energy transition. As the world looks to move towards net zero and Europe pulls away from Russian oil and gas, the...

Lonestar founder and CEO Chris Stott takes Infralogic's Crossroads podcast on a trip to the moon and back as he shares updates on his company's mission to send data centers to the moon. #datacenter #moon #data #digitalinfrastructure

Corey Lewis, a managing director at Aon, joins host Andrew Vitelli to talk about how tax insurance is used in the renewable energy sector and how the industry is adjusting to the Inflation Reduction Act. #inflationreductionact #IRA #taxinsurance #renewables