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Christen Blum, vice president, renewables advisory and analytics, and Emily Williams, vice president, strategy and sustainability at Edison Energy, join us to discuss vPPAs, PPAs and Edison’s entrance into the

Ep120: Entrepreneur Targeting Climate Change: Norman Crowley

Norman Crowley, serial entrepreneur and founder and head of Cool Planet Group, joins us to discuss his entrepreneurial adventures in renewables and what his nonprofit foundation, The Cool Planet Experience, was

More PURPA Rollbacks: FERC Upends Nearly 40-Years’ of Precedent on Determining QF Size; Leaves Energy Storage Questions Unresolved

In 1981 FERC held that the size of a qualifying small power production facility (“QF”) is measured by the amount of capacity it can “send out” to the grid. (Occidental Geothermal, Inc., 17 FERC ¶ 61,231 (1981)

Ep119: Mexico Renewables Market Update

Raquel Bierzwinsky, partner in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Mexico City and New York offices, joins us to discuss the renewables market in Mexico almost two years into AMLO’s term in office. She goes over the shift

Ep118: California Blackouts and Renewables

Jan Smutny-Jones, chief executive officer of the Independent Energy Producers Association, joins us to discuss the recent blackouts in California and how the renewables industry is related. Jan explains what ha

Carbon sequestration tax credits

Ep117: Commercial Bank, Term Loan B and Project Bond Markets

Ralph Cho and Mike Pantelogianis, Power & Infrastructure Finance Co-heads for Investec in North America, join us to discuss the commercial bank, term loan B and project bond lending markets.

Disappearing tax equity

Tax equity investors from five banks talked during a conference call in late July about the condition of the US tax equity market.

Lessons learned from the PG&E bankruptcy

Two senior bankers and the general counsel of a prominent renewable energy developer talk about what effect the PG&E bankruptcy has had on the ability to finance renewable energy projects in California.

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