Currents

Four project finance industry veterans talk about what to expect in the year ahead for tax equity, tax credit sales and debt. The four are Jack Cargas, managing director and head of tax equity origination, Bank of America ,  Ralph Cho , co-CEO, Apterra Infrastructure Capital ,  Rubiao Song , managing director and head of energy investments, JPMorgan , and Elizabeth Waters , managing director - pro...

Amy Duffuor, co-founder and general partner of Azolla Ventures, joins us to discuss venture capital investments in the renewable energy sector.

Michelle Demers, CEO of Boundless Impact and Analytics, joins us to discuss the use of data to help investors understand climate-related risks.

Stefan Reisinger, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to discuss the new anti-dumping duties on imported solar panels using cells made in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

A new report by Wood Mackenzie predicts a number of consequences from rising US demand for electricity. Chris Seiple, vice chairman, energy transition and power & renewables of Wood Mackenzie, discusses the findings.

Five prominent stock analysts discuss how they expect policy changes in the wake of the Trump victory to affect renewable energy, storage, transmission, RNG and other parts of the energy transition sector. The five are George Gianarikas , managing director and senior analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Joe Osha , senior managing director for equity research, Guggenheim Partners, Phil Shen , managing direc...

Five Washington insiders discuss the election results to assess what they mean for renewable energy, carbon capture, clean hydrogen, RNG and other parts of the energy transition. The five are Michael Catanzaro , CEO, CGCN Group, Richard Glick , principal, GQ New Energy Strategies, Hannah Hawkins , principal, KPMG, David Kautter , federal specialty tax leader, RSM, and Joe Mikrut , partner, Capitol...

Leslie Biddle, Deputy Under Secretary for Commercialization and Finance, and Art Scavone, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Infrastructure, join us to discuss the DOE-lender relationship and the soon to be released Government-Creditor Agreement.  Links for more information on the Government-Creditor Agreement: Government-Creditor Agreement | Department of Energy , and to learn about the Un...

David Burton, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, joins us to give an update on the tax credit transferability market. 

Akshat Kasliwal, managing consultant at PA Consulting, joins us to give his thoughts on the thermal and renewables markets.  

Juan Macias, CEO of AlphaStruxure, joins us to discuss what microgrids are and how they are at the core of his company’s energy service providing business.

Adam Stern, executive director of Offshore Wind California, joins us to discuss developments in the California offshore wind market.

Albert Bielinko, general partner at Titanium Ventures, joins us to give venture capital’s perspective on investing in climate tech.  Also, please stay until the end to hear our guest’s predictions on this year’s MLB World Series!

Andy Moon and Billy Lee, co-founders of Reunion, join us to give an overview of the tax credit market and what Reunion is doing to lower the transaction costs for market participants.

Quinn Pasloske, principal at Greenbacker, joins us to discuss Greenbacker’s approach to infrastructure and renewable energy investment and current market economics.

David Burton and Tim Byrne, partners in Norton Rose Fulbright, join us to discuss the likely outcome of the Federal Reserve's review of the application of Basel III to the risk weighting imposed on commercial banks when they make tax credit equity investments.

Michael Levy, head of global asset resilience at Baringa, a management consultancy, discusses how utilities and other energy companies are planning for extreme weather events.

John Bills, partner of PEI Global Partners, joins us to discuss the development loan sector and how PEI has been instrumental in structuring and arranging many energy and infrastructure deals.

Chris Rozzell, managing partner at Cresta Fund Management, joins us to discuss Cresta’s background, the sectors in which it has been investing and more.

Patrick Sullivan, CEO of EV Realty, joins us to discuss medium-to-heavy commercial fleet EV infrastructure.

Geoff Ferrell, senior vice president at sonnen, joins us to explain how energy storage systems can help utilities manage their grids.

Christ Frost and Steve Plake, partners at Riverside Advisors, join us to discuss financial hedging, an important tool in project financings.

Todd Snitchler, president and CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association, joins us to discuss how recent policies are impacting the electricity markets and how they may shape the future electric grid.

John Powers, vice president of global renewables and clean tech at Schneider Electric, updates us on developments in the offtake agreement and tax credit transfer markets.

Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, joins us to discuss this year’s solar risk assessment report published by kWh. He summarizes the findings in the report, including risks to the battery energy storage industry.