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Currents — 358 episodes

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Ep356: How Developers Can Turn Land Into Growth Capital

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Ep355: How Data Centers Are Reshaping Project Finance

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Ep354: How Developers Can Protect Their Tax Credits

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Ep353: Navigating FEOC and Tax Credit Uncertainty

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Ep352: Key Developments in the Energy Sector

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Ep351: Challenges and Opportunities in Distributed Solar

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Ep350: How Lenders Manage Credit Risk with Insurance

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Ep349: Meeting Surging Power Demand with Gas Assets

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Ep348: Key Risks Shaping the Solar Industry

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Ep347: The Role of Distributed Solar in a High‑Demand Grid

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Ep346: Rethinking Nuclear Approvals in the AI Era

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Ep345: Funding the Next Generation of Energy Technologies

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Ep344: Update on FEOC and Its Market Impact

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Ep343: Off‑Grid Solar for Public Spaces and Communities

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Ep342: Meeting Baseload Demand with Nuclear and Gas

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Ep341: Onsite Power Solutions for Data Centers

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Ep340: Distributed Generation in a Constrained Grid

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Ep339: Adapting Community Solar for a New Grid

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Ep338: A New Use for Old Wells

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Ep337: How Tax Credit Markets Weathered 2025

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Ep336: Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs

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Ep335: New IRS Guidance on FEOC and 45Z Tax Credits

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Ep334: Renewables Development in a Demand‑Driven Market

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Ep333: Rethinking Forecasts in an Uncertain Climate

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Ep332: Forecasting Energy Trends for 2026

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Ep331: Cost of capital: 2026 outlook

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Ep330: Using Curtailed Power for Data Centers

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Ep329: Building and Scaling Renewable Projects in a Shifting Policy Environment

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Ep328: Optimizing Distributed Generation Assets

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Ep327: Market Dynamics in Tax Credit Insurance

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Ep326: How Linear Generators Empower Businesses

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Ep325: New Rules for Private Power in Mexico

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Ep324: Evolving Community Solar and Storage

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Ep323: Data center financings: Part II

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Ep321: Financing the Next Wave of Nuclear

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Ep320: Streamlining Utility Planning for Rapid Deployment

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Ep319: Bringing Transparency to Clean Energy Certificates

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Ep318: TDK Ventures on Emerging Energy Tech

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Ep317: Tariffs and the Future of Battery Storage

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Ep316: How Captona is Scaling Energy Transition Assets

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Ep315: Developing Smarter Energy Platforms in Europe

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Ep314: Navigating cost, risk and regulation in energy storage

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Ep313: New Construction-Start Rules

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Ep312: Modeling Risk and Value in Renewable Energy Portfolios

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Ep311: A Discussion of the New FEOC Rules

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Ep310: Legal Perspectives on Energy and Infrastructure

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Ep309: Bitcoin Mining and Renewable Integration

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Ep308: Clean Energy, Island Style

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Ep307: What the Proposed Scope 2 Changes Could Mean

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Ep306: Summary of the Big Beautiful Bill

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Ep305: Nature as a Business Risk

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Ep304: Navigating the DOJ’s New FCPA Guidance

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Ep303: Scaling Clean Energy Access Through Community Solar

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Ep302: Insights from the 2025 kWh Solar Risk Assessment

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Ep301: Making Tax Credits Work for Clean Energy

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Ep300: Decoding the House Bill: Impacts on Energy Tax Credits

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Ep299: FEOC Restrictions: The House Passed Foreign Entity of Concern Restrictions

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Ep298: Summary of Tax Provisions from House Ways and Means Committee

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Ep297: Energy Management for Data Centers

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Ep296: Ascend Analytics CEO on Navigating the Energy Market

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Ep295: Giraffe Financial CEO on Tax Credit Monetization

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Ep294: Navigating Utility-Scale Solar and BESS Development in 2025

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Ep293: Data Center Financings

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Ep292: Tariff Impact on the Infrastructure Sector

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Ep291: Not Science-Fiction: How Reflect Orbital is Creating Sunlight at Night

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Ep290: New Solutions in Energy Storage

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Ep289: Challenges of Greenfield Solar Development in 2025

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Ep288: MicroGrids: A Piece of the Energy Supply Puzzle

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Ep287: ETCH’s Clean Hydrogen and Decarbonization Process

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Ep286: Sustainability Roundtable’s Reverse Auction Procurement System

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Ep285: Community Solar in Urban Environments

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Ep284: How Water-Based Batteries Can Be A Solution For Energy Storage

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Ep283: What is Carbon Upcycling?

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Ep282: CRC-IB on the US Renewables Market in 2025

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Ep281: Hydrogen Takeoff?

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Ep280: Forecasting Electricity Prices

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Ep279: Cost of Capital: 2025 Outlook

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Ep278: Venture Capital in the Renewable Energy Sector

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Ep277: Using Analytics to Help Investors

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Ep276: The Department of Commerce’s New Anti-Dumping Duties

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Ep275: Paradigm Shift

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Ep274: Market Forecasts Post-Election

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Ep273: Post-Election Outlook for Renewables and Other Parts of the Energy Transition

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Ep272: The DOE on Lending Agreements

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Ep271: What Does the Data Say About Tax Credit Transferability

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Ep270: Making Deals in the Thermal and Renewable Markets

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Ep269: AlphaStruxure’s CEO on Microgrids

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Ep268: The Offshore Wind Market in California

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Ep267: A Venture Capitalist’s Take on Climate Tech

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Ep266: Reunion Co-Founders on the Tax Credit Market

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Ep265: Greenbacker Principal on Infrastructure and Renewables Investment

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Ep264: The Federal Reserve Reviews Basel III

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Ep263: Extreme Weather and the Grid

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Ep262: PEI Global Partners on the Development Loan Sector

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Ep261: Cresta’s Managing Partner on Clean Energy Investment

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Ep260: EV Realty CEO on EV Fleet Infrastructure

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Ep259: sonnen Senior Vice President on Energy Storage Systems

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Ep258: Riverside Advisors on Financial Hedging

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Ep257: EPSA CEO on Recent Policies and Their Effect on the Grid

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Ep256: Schneider Electric Vice President on Offtake Agreements and Tax Credits

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Ep255 Supplement: kWh Analytics' 2024 Solar Risk Assesment Report

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Ep 255: kWh CEO Discusses the Solar Risk Assessment Report

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Ep254: Peak Energy CEO on Sodium-ion Batteries

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Ep253: FERC Transmission Actions: How Big A Deal

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Ep252: Fourth Power CEO on Thermal Storage

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Ep 251: US Treasury’s New Bonus Tax Credit Guidance

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Ep250: Section 301 Tariffs

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Ep249: Ariel Green on Technology Performance Insurance

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Ep248: The IRS’s New Tax Credit Rules

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Ep247: Solar Module Petition Update

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Ep246: Developing Solar on Variable Terrain

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Ep245: Renewable Properties President on the CPUC’s Community Solar Proposal

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Ep244: BrightNight CEO on Investing in Renewable Energy

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Ep243: John Cockerill on hydrogen electrolyzers

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Ep242: MUFG Managing Director on the Project Finance Renewables Loan Market

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Ep241: Trump and the IRA

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Ep240: Anza CEO on Solar Procurement

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Ep239: Nomura’s Vinod Mukani on the state of the commercial bank market

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Ep238: Tariff Moratorium Update

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Ep237: DoubleLine Capital making moves into infrastructure

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Ep236: Cost of Capital: 2024 Outlook

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Ep235: Mini-grids and Bringing Power to Developing Areas

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Ep234: Fluence President on Energy Storage Projects

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Ep233: Plus Power on Stand-Alone Energy Storage

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Ep232: Insurance Affecting Projects Part II

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Ep231: Insurance Affecting Projects Part I

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Ep230: Clean Energy Associates Vice President Discusses Market Trends

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Ep229: Declan Falanagn, CEO of Bluestar, Discusses Renewable Investing

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Ep228: CEO of Spearmint Energy on Battery Energy Storage

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Ep227: Intersect Power CEO on the Power Grid

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Ep226: Aon Co-CEO Gives an Overview of Tax Credit Insurance

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Ep225: Invenergy Vice Presidents Discuss Build-Transfer Transactions

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Ep224: Energy Storage Outlook

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Currents Bonus Episode: Renewables Professionals Predict the World Series

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Ep223: Investing in Decarbonization: Insights from an Experienced Investor

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Ep222: An Assessment of the IRA

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Ep221: Opportunites for Sustainability in Commercial Real Estate

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Ep220: Taking its toll — Tolling Agreements and Offtake Strategies

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Ep219: Northern Lights: Alight's CEO talks about solar in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe

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Ep218: Debt Workouts and Liability Management Transactions

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Ep217: Ampion CEO Discusses Community Solar

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Ep216: Heating Up: New geo-thermal developments and technology

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Ep215: Getting Worked Up—What to Know About the IRA’s Wage Requirements

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EP214: Plug Power CEO Discusses Future of Hydrogen Economy

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Ep213: Community Solar Update

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Ep212: Trends in the Renewables Market

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Ep211: New Proposed IRS Guidance on Tax Credits Transferability

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Ep210: Fuel Cells

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Ep209: New legislation in Texas creates a murky landscape for renewables

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Ep208: Current Trends in Renewables

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Ep207: The Climate Mobilization Act

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Ep206: How the IRA has affected the MCOE

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Ep205: “Transferability” - Tax Credit Sales

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Ep204: Global Mining Supply Chain

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Ep203: Transferability of Tax Credits

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Ep202: Bridge Banks: Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Market Watch

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Ep 201: Silicon Valley Bank Outlook

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Ep200: Cost of Capital: 2023 Outlook

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EP199: The DoC’s Preliminary Determination of Circumvention Issues

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Ep198: Book Talk: California Burning

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Ep197: Post-Election Analysis

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Ep196: Inflation Reduction Act

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Ep195: What's New in the Market

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Ep194: New PJM Regulations and FERC Rules

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Ep193: DOE Loan Program Office Update

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Ep192: Biden's Executive Order

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Ep191: Recent Evolution of the Hedge Market

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Ep190: Climate Insurance and the Solar Industry

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Ep189: Proposed Tariffs Add to Uncertainty for Solar Develop

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Ep188: Energy Storage Investment Tax Credits

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Ep187: Freeing Energy with Bill Nussey

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Ep186: An Inside Look at Intersect’s $2.6 Billion Financing

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Ep185: Cost of Capital: 2022 Outlook

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Ep184: Scaling the Next Generation of Sustainability

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Ep183: Maximizing the Value of Renewable Real Estate Holding

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Ep182: Vanadium Flow Batteries

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Ep181: Intersect Power’s Approach and Latest Financing

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Ep180: Insuring Renewables

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Ep179: Solar Energy Validation

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Ep178: Green Energy Infrastructure

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Ep177: Sustainable Finance

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Ep176: A Creative and Collaborative Funding Solution

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Ep175: Developing in the C&I Space

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Ep174: Building Better Batteries

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Ep173: US Offshore Wind Market Update

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Ep172: Supply Chain Ethics and Transparency in US Solar

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Ep171: Renewable Hydrogen Update

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Ep170: Green Power Aggregation with Enel

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Ep169: What Sponsors Need to Know to Finance CCS Projects

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Ep168: Data Centers: What Potential Investors Need to Know

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Ep167: How Nuclear Technology Can Help Reach Carbon Goals

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Ep166: Investing in Water Infrastructure

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Ep165: Banking on Batteries

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Ep164: Utility-Scale Transmission Line Development

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Ep163: Supply Chain Traceability

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Ep162: Solar Risk Assessment Report 2021

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Ep161: Reducing Project Costs by Mitigating Risk

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Ep160: Spanish Inbound Investors

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Ep159: SPAC Market Update

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Ep158: Long-Duration Energy Storage with Highview Power

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Ep157: The Missing Piece of the Carbon Accounting Puzzle

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Ep156: Building a Clean Energy Economy

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Ep155: A Green Infrastructure Investment Strategy

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Ep154: Powering the UK with the Moroccan Sun

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Ep153: Biden's Infrastructure Plan

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Ep152: Offshore Wind in California

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Ep151: Private Equity with Greenbacker Capital

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Ep150: Merchant Financings After Texas

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Ep149: 2020 Lendscape Update: The Refinancing Boom

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Ep148: Hydrogen: The next frontier

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Ep147: Competition in the Battery Storage Market

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Ep146: What's Next in C&I Solar

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Ep145: Recycling Lithium Batteries

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Ep144: Meet the DC Green Bank

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Ep143: The Current State of PPAs

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Ep142: Climate Adaptive Infrastructure

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Ep141: Leveraging Technology to Scale Clean Energy

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Ep140: Cost of Capital: 2021 Outlook

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Ep139: Arcadia's Community Solar Strategy

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Ep138: A Look at the Corporate PPA Market

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Ep137: Community Solar Market Update

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Ep136: Tax Extender Bill Unpacked

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Ep135: Smart Technology in the Energy Industry

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Ep134: Developing Solar + Storage

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Ep133: Clean Energy and Rural America’s Economic Rebound

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Ep132: District Energy Sector Update

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Ep131: An Introduction to the World Energy Council

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Ep130: Risk Management in 2020

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Ep129: Post-Election Analysis

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Ep128: Investing in Energy Innovation

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Ep127: Residential Geothermal Energy

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Ep126: Bitcoin and the Energy Industry Explained

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Ep125: What's New in the Market

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Ep124: ESG and Solar Energy Infrastructure

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Ep123: 2020 Solar Production Index

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Ep122: Highlander Transaction: sPower's 620 MW Solar Plant

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Ep121: Edison Energy’s Return to Europe

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Ep120: Entrepreneuer Targets Climate Change: Norman Crowley

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Mexico Renewables Market Update

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Ep118: California Blackouts and Renewables

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

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Ep116: Floating Wind: US Outlook

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Ep115: Enabling Bankability for New Technologies

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Ep114: COVID-19's Effect on Utilities

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Ep113: Condition of the Tax Equity Market

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Ep112: Solar Risk Assessment Report 2020

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Ep111: Lessons Learned from PG&E's Bankruptcy

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Ep110: Behind-the-Meter Storage

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Ep109: What's New in the Market

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Ep108: Making C&I Solar Attractive to Institutional Investor

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Ep107: Energy Storage in ERCOT

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Ep106: Brightmark on Renewable Natural Gas

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Ep105: Distributed Generation's Reaction to COVID-19

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Ep104: Clean Energy Associates on Supply Chain, QA and IE

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Ep103: Hawaiian Electric and EVs

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Ep102: Tax Equity and Carbon Sequestration

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Ep101: State of Tax Equity

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Ep100: Energetic Insurance: Removing the Risk in Solar

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Ep99: Enel X on EV Charging and the Renewable Grid

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Ep98: Uncertain Times: The Role of IFIs

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Ep97: Trump's Executive Order Banning Equipment

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Ep96: DNV GL on COVID-19 and the Renewables Industry

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Ep95: An Investor's View of the Market Today

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Ep94: The Current State of the R&W and Tax Insurance Markets

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Ep93: Merchant Storage: A New Frontier

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Ep92: US EXIM is Back

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Ep91: What the CARES Act Means for Companies

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Ep90: Taking Stock:Tax Equity, Debt and M&A

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Ep89: Taking Stock: Business Outlook

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Ep88: US Wind Energy Market Outlook

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Ep87: Coronavirus and the Renewable Energy Industry

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Ep86: The LIBOR Transition

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Ep85: The Advantages of Surety Bonds

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Ep84: 2019 Review of Renewables

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Ep83: Cost of Capital: 2020 Outlook

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Ep82: PPAs, Bankruptcy and Utilities, Oh My!

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Ep81: Distributed Solar Market Update

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Ep80: kWh Analytics' Solar Lendscape: 2020 Update

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Ep79: PTC Extension Legislation Update

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Ep78: Financing Renewable Energy: Present & Future

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Ep77: Solar + Storage: A Look at the Market

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Ep76: FERC's Proposed Changes to PURPA

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Ep75: The Business of Hydro with Hydro-Québec

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Ep74: Radiant REIT: Solar Market Disruptor

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Ep73: Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform US Energy

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Ep72: The ITC Extension Bill

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Ep71: BloombergNEF's New Energy Outlook

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Ep70: Solar Refinancing and M&A

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Ep69: The Re-entrance of US ExIm Bank

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Ep68: The Current State of the California Market

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Ep67: The M&A Landscape for Renewables

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Ep66: Tax Market Update

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Ep65: The Solar Market: Today and Tomorrow

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Ep64: Thermal Power Hedging

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Ep63: The Business of Repowering

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Ep62: North American Development Bank

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Ep61: Solar Risk Assessment Report

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Ep59: Quasi-merchant Gas Deals with Investec

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Ep58: Energy Storage PPAs

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Ep57: BayWa's Innovative PPA Approach and Market Overview

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Ep60: DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office

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Ep55: kWh Analytics' Solar Lendscape

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Ep54: The US LNG Industry

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Ep53: Practical Wisdom About Tax Equity

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Ep52: DNV GL's Energy Transition Outlook

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Ep51: Working with the NY Green Bank

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Ep50: Covariance Risk with RESurety

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Ep49: Grid Strategies on Electricity Market Design

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Ep48: Mexico: Changes in Store?

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Ep47: Cost of Capital: 2019 Outlook

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Ep46: Solar Revenue Put: One Year Later

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Ep45: Potential Impacts from Wildfires on PG&E

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Ep44: Post-Election Assessment: US Power Sector

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Ep43: A Master Class on Ratings for Projects

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Ep42: Title Insurance for Projects

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Ep41: M&A Due Diligence

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Ep40: Emerging Energy Infrastructure Opportunities

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Ep39: Interview with an Industry Veteran: Steven Greenwald

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Ep38: The Future of Energy Storage

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Ep37: Legal Perspective: Reps and Warranties Insurance

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Ep36: CFIUS Legislation Update

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Ep35: PACE Securitization Overview

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Ep34: Legal Perspective: Back-leveraged Loans

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Ep33: IPPs, PPAs, and Chapter 11

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Ep32: Capital Dynamics' View on the Solar Market

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Ep31: CFIUS: A Closer Look

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Ep30: New York: Renewable Energy Incubator

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Ep29: Increasing Regulatory Headwinds

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Ep28: The M&A Landscape

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Ep26: Tax Credit Insurance for Renewable Projects

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Ep25: Energy Storage Drivers & Pitfalls, a Webinar with ICF

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Ep24: Net Metering and Community Solar Update

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Ep23: Solar Revenue Puts with Richard Matsui, KwH Analytics

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Ep21: Interview with a Wind Energy Pioneer: Jacob Susman

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Ep20: Tax Changes Affects on Transactions

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Tax Bill's Impact on the US Power Market

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Ep18: Mexico Power Auctions

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Ep17: Back-leverage Loans: Trends and Issues

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Ep16: Renewable Energy Hedges

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Ep15: Cross-border Energy M&A Transactions

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Ep14: Political Risk Insurance: Industry Overview and Trends

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Ep13: Spotlight on LNG-to-Power Projects

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Ep12: WIFIA and the US Water Infrastructure Gap

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Bonus: An Interview with Governor Pataki

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Ep11: Gov. Pataki's Perspective on Energy and Infrastructure

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Ep10: How US Tax Reform Could Affect Renewables

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Ep9: My Favorite Project, Part One

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Ep8: Tax Equity 101

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Ep7: 2017 Renewable Energy Outlook

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Bonus: Cost of Capital: 2017 Outlook

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Ep6: Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Effects of Trump

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Lessons from the SunEdison Bankruptcy

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Ep4: US Infrastructure and P3 Opportunities

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Bonus: US Renewable Energy After the November Elections

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Ep3: Net Metering Programs and Policy Update

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Ep2: The Future of US Offshore Wind, Part 2

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Ep1: The Future of US Offshore Wind, Part 1

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Episode 0: Introduction