Ep151: Private Equity with Greenbacker Capital
Charles Wheeler, president, co-CEO and CIO, and Benjamin Baker, managing director, at Greebacker Capital join us to discuss the firm’s mission and their fu
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Ep150: Merchant Financings After Texas
Has the appetite among banks and tax equity investors to finance hedged merchant power and storage projects changed as a result of the events last month in
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Ep149: 2020 Lendscape Update: The Refinancing Boom
Richard Matsui, CEO of kWh Analytics, joins us for an update on the Solar Lendscape. He covers what is new in tax equity, gives a breakdown of three trends
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Ep148: Hydrogen: The next frontier
Close to 4,000 people registered to listen to a discussion among three experts about the prospects for hydrogen. Interest is particularly high in green hyd
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Ep147: Competition in the Battery Storage Market
Eren Ergin, general manager of renewables and distributed assets at Honeywell, joins us to talk about stationary battery storage. We discuss what Honeywell
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Ep146: What's Next in C&I Solar
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 sta
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February 2021
IN THIS ISSUE Tax credits for carbon capture The market is showing early signs of a stampede to install carbon capture equipment at power plants and indust
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December 2020
IN THIS ISSUE Emerging opportunities in the hydrogen market The first bankable green hydrogen projects will involve three types of customers. Another five
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How the US Election Will Affect Renewables
Keith Martin gave a market update on November 18 that is largely an analysis of how the US election results will affect the renewable energy market, but th
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October 2020
IN THIS ISSUE SPACs gain in popularity Some renewable energy companies are thinking about special-purpose acquisition companies — called SPACs — as a possi
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FERC Upends Nearly 40-Years’ of Precedent on Determining QF Size | Norton Rose Fulbright
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
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August 2020
IN THIS ISSUE Disappearing tax equity Tax equity is emerging as a potential major choke point for the US renewable energy market. PURPA overhauled Independ
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Landmark federal energy storage order upheld
A landmark order passed by FERC in 2018 paving the way for energy storage deployment has been upheld in court.
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Trump Executive Order: Impact on Energy Storage
On May 1, President Trump issued an Executive Order banning the use of certain unspecified grid equipment manufactured by foreign adversary countries. The
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June 2020
IN THIS ISSUE Trump bulk-power system order: Market reaction Market reaction to the Trump bulk-power system order has been mixed. Some tax equity investors
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