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Currents
Currents is a podcast published by Norton Rose Fulbright that features in-depth discussions on the latest developments in project finance. The podcast is hosted by partner Jim Berger, who interviews key business leaders and policy makers to investigate important trends affecting the energy and infrastructure space.
Episodes
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Ep310: Legal Perspectives on Energy and Infrastructure
Chris Panaro, Executive Director & Counsel at Nomura, shares legal insights from financing energy and infrastructure projects, highlighting the risks…
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Ep309: Bitcoin Mining and Renewable Integration
JohnPaul Baric, founder of MiningStore, explains how Bitcoin mining is evolving into a powerful tool for grid stability and renewable energy integration.
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Ep308: Clean Energy, Island Style
Lukas Sheild, general manager at REC Solar Hawaii, shares how microgrids are transforming energy resilience across the Hawaiian islands.
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Ep307: What the Proposed Scope 2 Changes Could Mean
Lee Taylor, CEO of REsurety, joins us to unpack the debate surrounding the proposed revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 2 emissions guidance.
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Ep306: Summary of the Big Beautiful Bill
Keith Martin, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to break down the Big Beautiful Bill and how it will affect renewable energy tax credits.
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Ep305: Nature as a Business Risk
Megan Pillsbury, CEO of Dunya Analytics, joins us to discuss how businesses can identify and manage environmental-related risks using scalable, science-based…
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Ep304: Navigating the DOJ’s New FCPA Guidance
Keith Rosen, a Norton Rose Fulbright partner, explains the Department of Justice’s updated guidance on enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and…
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Ep303: Scaling Clean Energy Access Through Community Solar
Jorge Vargas, CEO of Aspen Power, joins us to discuss the evolving landscape of community solar in the US. He shares how Aspen is expanding access to clean…
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Ep302: Insights from the 2025 kWh Solar Risk Assessment
Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, returns to discuss key findings from the 2025 Solar Risk Assessment report. The report highlights growing threats from…
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Ep301: Making Tax Credits Work for Clean Energy
Alfred Johnson, CEO of Crux, discusses how Crux is streamlining clean energy financing through a marketplace for transferable tax credits, insights on market…
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Ep300: Decoding the House Bill: Impacts on Energy Tax Credits
Keith Martin, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, breaks down the latest US legislative changes affecting renewable energy tax credits, including last-minute…
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Ep299: FEOC Restrictions: The House Passed Foreign Entity of Concern Restrictions
Kristina Costa and Ted Lee, who were involved in FEOC guidance at the White House and Treasury during the Biden administration, and Kyle Sweeney with the NYU…
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Ep298: Summary of Tax Provisions from House Ways and Means Committee
Hilary Lefko, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to discuss the Republicans' proposed plans for the future of renewable tax credits to be folded into the…
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Ep297: Energy Management for Data Centers
Michael Stadler, CTO of Xendee, discusses how microgrids are designed and operated to minimize costs, enhance reliability and achieve emissions goals. He…
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Ep296: Ascend Analytics CEO on Navigating the Energy Market
Gary Dorris, CEO of Ascend Analytics, discusses how his company uses software and data to understand the economic dynamics of energy supply. He explains the…
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Ep295: Giraffe Financial CEO on Tax Credit Monetization
Jason Prince, CEO of Giraffe Financial, discusses tax credit monetization and the challenges and opportunities in the evolving landscape of climate incentives…
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Ep294: Navigating Utility-Scale Solar and BESS Development in 2025
Sabah Bayatli, president of OCI Energy, discusses the evolving policy and regulatory landscape shaping utility-scale solar and energy storage development in…
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Ep293: Data Center Financings
Four industry experts discuss what to expect from current financing structures for data centers. The four are Claus Hertel, managing director, Rabobank, Melih…
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Ep292: Tariff Impact on the Infrastructure Sector
Stefan Reisinger, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to discuss the newly imposed tariffs and how they may affect the infrastructure industry.
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Ep291: Not Science-Fiction: How Reflect Orbital is Creating Sunlight at Night
Ally DeGunther, vice president of strategy for Reflect Orbital, joins us to discuss the company’s development of technology that uses satellites to reflect…
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Ep290: New Solutions in Energy Storage
Rob Piconi, CEO of Energy Vault, joins host Todd Alexander to discuss the energy storage market and novel storage solutions that Energy Vault has been working…
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Ep289: Challenges of Greenfield Solar Development in 2025
Vitaly Lee, EVP and Chief Development Officer of Qcells, joins us to discuss the outlook of greenfield solar development in 2025, the M&A market outlook, and…
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Ep288: MicroGrids: A Piece of the Energy Supply Puzzle
Kirk Edelman, CEO of SolMicroGrid, joins us to discuss microgrids, their benefits, how they can be deployed, and more.
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Ep287: ETCH’s Clean Hydrogen and Decarbonization Process
Katie Ellet, CEO of ETCH, joins us to discuss ETCH’s process for decarbonizing natural gas to produce clean hydrogen and solid carbon.
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Ep286: Sustainability Roundtable’s Reverse Auction Procurement System
Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc., joins us to discuss the reverse auction procurement process system Sustainability Roundtable has developed…
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Ep285: Community Solar in Urban Environments
Jared Haines, CEO of Catalyze, joins us to discuss the community solar development process and success Catalyze has had in the New York community solar market.
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Ep284: How Water-Based Batteries Can Be A Solution For Energy Storage
Eugene Beh, CEO of Quino Energy, joins us to discuss how water-based batteries can meet the growing demand for long-term and middle-term energy storage.
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Ep283: What is Carbon Upcycling?
Apoorv Sinha, CEO of Carbon Upcycling, joins us to discuss how his company is taking carbon emissions from industrial processes and upcycling them into new…
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Ep282: CRC-IB on the US Renewables Market in 2025
Britta von Oesen, partner and managing director at CRC-IB, joins us to discuss the US renewables market, with a particular focus on the M&A market.
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Ep281: Hydrogen Takeoff?
Four industry experts discuss the final rules released earlier this month by The US Treasury to make it easier to claim tax credits for making hydrogen. The…
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Ep280: Forecasting Electricity Prices
Gary Cate, director of energy market analytics at Fluence, joins the podcast to discuss electricity price forecasting and its role in the energy services…
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Ep279: Cost of Capital: 2025 Outlook
Four project finance industry veterans talk about what to expect in the year ahead for tax equity, tax credit sales and debt. The four are Jack Cargas…
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Ep278: Venture Capital in the Renewable Energy Sector
Amy Duffuor, co-founder and general partner of Azolla Ventures, joins us to discuss venture capital investments in the renewable energy sector.
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Ep277: Using Analytics to Help Investors
Michelle Demers, CEO of Boundless Impact and Analytics, joins us to discuss the use of data to help investors understand climate-related risks.
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Ep276: The Department of Commerce’s New Anti-Dumping Duties
Stefan Reisinger, Norton Rose Fulbright partner, joins us to discuss the new anti-dumping duties on imported solar panels using cells made in Thailand…
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Ep275: Paradigm Shift
A new report by Wood Mackenzie predicts a number of consequences from rising US demand for electricity. Chris Seiple, vice chairman, energy transition and…
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Ep274: Market Forecasts Post-Election
Five prominent stock analysts discuss how they expect policy changes in the wake of the Trump victory to affect renewable energy, storage, transmission, RNG…
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Ep273: Post-Election Outlook for Renewables and Other Parts of the Energy Transition
Five Washington insiders discuss the election results to assess what they mean for renewable energy, carbon capture, clean hydrogen, RNG and other parts of the…
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Ep272: The DOE on Lending Agreements
Leslie Biddle, Deputy Under Secretary for Commercialization and Finance, and Art Scavone, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Infrastructure, join us to…
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Ep271: What Does the Data Say About Tax Credit Transferability
David Burton, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, joins us to give an update on the tax credit transferability market.
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Ep270: Making Deals in the Thermal and Renewable Markets
Akshat Kasliwal, managing consultant at PA Consulting, joins us to give his thoughts on the thermal and renewables markets.
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Ep269: AlphaStruxure’s CEO on Microgrids
Juan Macias, CEO of AlphaStruxure, joins us to discuss what microgrids are and how they are at the core of his company’s energy service providing business.
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Ep268: The Offshore Wind Market in California
Adam Stern, executive director of Offshore Wind California, joins us to discuss developments in the California offshore wind market.
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Ep267: A Venture Capitalist’s Take on Climate Tech
Albert Bielinko, general partner at Titanium Ventures, joins us to give venture capital’s perspective on investing in climate tech. Also, please stay until the…
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Ep266: Reunion Co-Founders on the Tax Credit Market
Andy Moon and Billy Lee, co-founders of Reunion, join us to give an overview of the tax credit market and what Reunion is doing to lower the transaction costs…
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Ep265: Greenbacker Principal on Infrastructure and Renewables Investment
Quinn Pasloske, principal at Greenbacker, joins us to discuss Greenbacker’s approach to infrastructure and renewable energy investment and current market…
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Ep264: The Federal Reserve Reviews Basel III
David Burton and Tim Byrne, partners in Norton Rose Fulbright, join us to discuss the likely outcome of the Federal Reserve's review of the application of…
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Ep263: Extreme Weather and the Grid
Michael Levy, head of global asset resilience at Baringa, a management consultancy, discusses how utilities and other energy companies are planning for extreme…
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Ep262: PEI Global Partners on the Development Loan Sector
John Bills, partner of PEI Global Partners, joins us to discuss the development loan sector and how PEI has been instrumental in structuring and arranging many…
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Ep261: Cresta’s Managing Partner on Clean Energy Investment
Chris Rozzell, managing partner at Cresta Fund Management, joins us to discuss Cresta’s background, the sectors in which it has been investing and more.
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Ep260: EV Realty CEO on EV Fleet Infrastructure
Patrick Sullivan, CEO of EV Realty, joins us to discuss medium-to-heavy commercial fleet EV infrastructure.
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Ep259: sonnen Senior Vice President on Energy Storage Systems
Geoff Ferrell, senior vice president at sonnen, joins us to explain how energy storage systems can help utilities manage their grids.
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Ep258: Riverside Advisors on Financial Hedging
Christ Frost and Steve Plake, partners at Riverside Advisors, join us to discuss financial hedging, an important tool in project financings.
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Ep257: EPSA CEO on Recent Policies and Their Effect on the Grid
Todd Snitchler, president and CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association, joins us to discuss how recent policies are impacting the electricity markets and…
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Ep256: Schneider Electric Vice President on Offtake Agreements and Tax Credits
John Powers, vice president of global renewables and clean tech at Schneider Electric, updates us on developments in the offtake agreement and tax credit…
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Ep 255: kWh CEO Discusses the Solar Risk Assessment Report
Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, joins us to discuss this year’s solar risk assessment report published by kWh. He summarizes the findings in the report…
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Ep255 Supplement: kWh Analytics' 2024 Solar Risk Assesment Report
The 2024 Solar Risk Assessment, now in its 6th edition, is a comprehensive report of the most pressing risks and opportunities facing the solar and storage…
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Ep254: Peak Energy CEO on Sodium-ion Batteries
Landon Mossburg, CEO of Peak Energy, joins us to discuss sodium-ion batteries and how they can complement lithium-ion batteries
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Ep253: FERC Transmission Actions: How Big A Deal
FERC Commissioner Allison Clements, Grid Strategies President Rob Gramlich and Norton Rose Fulbright partner Kat Gamache talk about how much of a difference…
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Ep252: Fourth Power CEO on Thermal Storage
Arvin Ganesan, CEO of Fourth Power, joins us to discuss thermal storage technologies and what role they can have in the energy storage market.