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Keith Rosen, a Norton Rose Fulbright partner, explains the Department of Justice’s updated guidance on enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and discusses how it will affect US companies developing infrastructure projects overseas.

Jorge Vargas, CEO of Aspen Power, joins us to discuss the evolving landscape of community solar in the US. He shares how Aspen is expanding access to clean energy through innovative partnerships, strategic development, and a focus on emerging markets.

Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, returns to discuss key findings from the 2025 Solar Risk Assessment report. The report highlights growing threats from extreme weather.  We also discuss how AI is being used to improve data analysis and the rising importance of cybersecurity and battery safety in renewable energy.  The 2025 Solar Risk Assessment is available to download at  kwhanalytics.com/so...

Alfred Johnson, CEO of Crux, discusses how Crux is streamlining clean energy financing through a marketplace for transferable tax credits, insights on market growth, recent policy changes and more.

Keith Martin, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, breaks down the latest US legislative changes affecting renewable energy tax credits, including last-minute amendments and their implications for solar, wind, hydrogen and carbon capture projects.

Kristina Costa and Ted Lee, who were involved in FEOC guidance at the White House and Treasury during the Biden administration, and Kyle Sweeney with the NYU Tax Law Center, join us to discuss their concerns with the FEOC restrictions in the budget reconciliation bill that passed the US House this week.

Hilary Lefko, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to discuss the Republicans' proposed plans for the future of renewable tax credits to be folded into the budget reconciliation bill later this year. 

Michael Stadler, CTO of Xendee, discusses how microgrids are designed and operated to minimize costs, enhance reliability and achieve emissions goals. He explains how microgrids can address the growing electricity demand driven by AI and the challenges of utility upgrades and discusses the benefits of technologies like combined heat and power systems and batteries.

Gary Dorris, CEO of Ascend Analytics, discusses how his company uses software and data to understand the economic dynamics of energy supply. He explains the complexities of predicting power prices due to the increasing influence of renewables and storage and the importance of advanced computing and machine learning in optimizing asset management.

Jason Prince, CEO of Giraffe Financial, discusses tax credit monetization and the challenges and opportunities in the evolving landscape of climate incentives, including dealing with transaction costs and regulatory compliance, as he explains Giraffe Financial’s approach to make tax credit monetization accessible and efficient.

Sabah Bayatli, president of OCI Energy, discusses the evolving policy and regulatory landscape shaping utility-scale solar and energy storage development in the US, including tariffs, the Inflation Reduction Act, interconnection challenges and contracting strategies and also explainsOCI Energy’s approach to geographic and technological diversification.

Four industry experts discuss what to expect from current financing structures for data centers. The four are  Claus Hertel , managing director, Rabobank, Melih Ileri , SVP capital markets and strategy, DC BLOX, Mike Johnson , vice president, Nomura and Tim McGuire , senior director, project finance, Rowan Digital Infrastructure. The moderators are Christine Brozynski and Christy Rivera in New Yor...

Stefan Reisinger, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to discuss the newly imposed tariffs and how they may affect the infrastructure industry. 

Ally DeGunther, vice president of strategy for Reflect Orbital, joins us to discuss the company’s development of technology that uses satellites to reflect sunlight after dark, and how this technology could be applied.  

Rob Piconi, CEO of Energy Vault, joins host Todd Alexander to discuss the energy storage market and novel storage solutions that Energy Vault has been working on.

Vitaly Lee, EVP and Chief Development Officer of Qcells, joins us to discuss the outlook of greenfield solar development in 2025, the M&A market outlook, and more.

Kirk Edelman, CEO of SolMicroGrid, joins us to discuss microgrids, their benefits, how they can be deployed, and more.

Katie Ellet, CEO of ETCH, joins us to discuss ETCH’s process for decarbonizing natural gas to produce clean hydrogen and solid carbon.

Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc., joins us to discuss the reverse auction procurement process system Sustainability Roundtable has developed where companies and municipalities can incentivize the development of new renewable energy projects.

Jared Haines, CEO of Catalyze, joins us to discuss the community solar development process and success Catalyze has had in the New York community solar market.

Eugene Beh, CEO of Quino Energy, joins us to discuss how water-based batteries can meet the growing demand for long-term and middle-term energy storage.

Apoorv Sinha, CEO of Carbon Upcycling, joins us to discuss how his company is taking carbon emissions from industrial processes and upcycling them into new materials.

Britta von Oesen, partner and managing director at CRC-IB, joins us to discuss the US renewables market, with a particular focus on the M&A market.

Four industry experts discuss the final rules released earlier this month by The US Treasury to make it easier to claim tax credits for making hydrogen. The four are Rachel Crouch, chief counsel, hydrogen, The AES Corporation, Matt McMonagle, CEO & Founder, NovoHydrogen, Josh Stolaroff, CEO, Mote Hydrogen and Jacob Susman, CEO, Ambient Fuels, LLC. The moderator is James Berger in Los Angeles.

Gary Cate, director of energy market analytics at Fluence, joins the podcast to discuss electricity price forecasting and its role in the energy services sector.