Inside Lowercarbon’s apolitical approach to cleantech investing

Critical Capital · Oct 13, 2026 · 45m

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For decades, clean energy technology was framed as a moral imperative; a necessary strategy for saving the planet. Today, it’s just good business.

Thanks to rapid breakthroughs in generation and storage, the unit economics of cleantech have reached price parity with — and in some cases even undercut — fossil alternatives. But despite the incentives, this shift away from fossil fuels continues to hit roadblocks. Broken project finance stacks, risk-averse underwriters…