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Richard Walsh, managing partner at Madison Energy Investments, joins us to talk about trends he is seeing in the C&I solar market. We get into the best state markets for C&I solar and emerging markets, how stor

Ep145: Recycling Lithium Batteries

Kunal Phalpher, CCO of Li-Cycle, joins us to talk about recycling lithium-ion batteries. We get into the size of the market, what is recycled out of the batteries, how much of the materials extracted can be use

Cost of capital: 2021 outlook

Many developers struggled during 2020 to find tax equity. Interest rates remain at historic lows. The 30-year treasury bond rate was up 21.8% through February 12 compared to year end 2020. It still stood at...

Proxy generation PPAs

Power purchase agreements that settle based on “proxy genera-tion” are becoming more common for wind and solar projects. Such power contracts are a variation on a type of hedge called a “contract for...

Negotiating hydrogen contracts

Market standards for hydrogen revenue contracts remain malleable. The hydrogen market is set to undergo rapid change and expansion.

Expected changes in renewable energy policies

Investors watch for potential inflection points in markets. Many people will be focused this year on what changes the new Biden administration will make to accelerate deployment of renewable energy and to...

New trends in 2021

The Infocast Projects & Money conference each January is a good leading indicator of how strong a year it will be in terms of deal flow. If the CEOs are out in force, they have time on their hands, and it...

Partnership flips

Partnership flips are used to raise tax equity in the US renewable energy market. They are not the only structure for doing so, but they are the most common, and they are the only way to raise tax equity for...

COVID-19 and business interruption claims

The British Supreme Court cleared the way in mid-January for companies that have suffered economic losses due to COVID-19 to collect on business interruption insurance policies.

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