The U.S. Department of Energy is crucial for funding, researching, and testing emerging energy tech.
Now, within the Biden era, the agency is orienting itself toward deployment. How difficult is that transition?
Our former co-host Jigar Shah joins Stephen, Katherine, and Ed to debate his experience running the Energy Department’s loan programs office.
In March, Jigar left his position at Generate Capital (and this podcast) to go into government service and run the loan programs office. Jigar has $40 billion in authority to back a wide selection of climate technologies — and he’s been working on the primary round of investments with those dollars.
Within the second half of the show: a surprising twist in the worldwide clean-energy transition. How much trouble will energy price inflation cause around the globe?
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