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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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Ep192: Biden's Executive Order
Stefan Reisinger, partner Norton Rose Fulbright’s Washington office, joins us for a closer look at the Biden action yesterday to shield solar panels imported…
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Ep191: Recent Evolution of the Hedge Market
Lee Taylor, CEO of REsurety, joins us to discuss the recent evolution of the hedge market due to the impacts of winter storm Uri. We get into the spectrum of…
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Ep190: Climate Insurance and the Solar Industry
Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, joins us to discuss the company’s $20M Series B fundraise and the emergence of climate insurance. We discuss what the…
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Ep189: Proposed Tariffs Add to Uncertainty for Solar Develop
Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, joins us to discuss what the potential anti-circumvention tariffs on cells…
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Ep188: Energy Storage Investment Tax Credits
Keith Martin, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Washington, joins us to discuss investment tax credits (ITCs) for energy storage and provide an update on the…
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Ep187: Freeing Energy with Bill Nussey
Bill Nussey, founder and CEO of the Freeing Energy Project, joins us to discuss the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy. We discuss his new book, Freeing Energy…
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Ep186: An Inside Look at Intersect’s $2.6 Billion Financing
Sheldon Kimber, CEO and co-founder of Intersect Power, joins us to discuss the $2.6 billion financing facility that Intersect signed in November 2021 to…
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Ep185: Cost of Capital: 2022 Outlook
The year ahead looks like another strong year for financings, but with uncertainty around supply chains, inflation, potential tax law changes and import…
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Ep184: Scaling the Next Generation of Sustainability
Katie McClain, partner at Energize Ventures, joins us to discuss the company’s investment approach. We get into what it looks for in clean energy and climate…
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Ep183: Maximizing the Value of Renewable Real Estate Holding
Maria Klutey, president of Activate Renewables, joins us to discuss how the company’s business model maximizes the value of renewable real estate holdings. We…
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Ep182: Vanadium Flow Batteries
Matt Harper, chief commercial officer at Invinity Energy Systems, joins us to explain vanadium flow batteries. We discuss the future of energy storage, how…
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Ep181: Intersect Power’s Approach and Latest Financing
Sheldon Kimber, CEO and co-founder of Intersect Power, joins us to discuss what he is seeing in the industry and talk about the company’s latest financing. We…
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Ep180: Insuring Renewables
Maryann Johnson, senior managing director of property and energy claims at Beecher Carlson, Brian DiLuigi, senior vice president of alternative energy, and…
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Ep179: Solar Energy Validation
Jackson Moore, product director at DNV for renewable energy software, joins us to discuss DNV's solar energy validation work and to address questions about how…
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Ep178: Green Energy Infrastructure
Sam Porter and Mike Sloan, partners at Synergetic, join us to discuss green energy infrastructure. We go over Synergetic’s mission to deliver zero-carbon…
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Ep177: Sustainable Finance
Michael Edesess, managing partner, and Pascal Schoneburg, founder of M1K, join us to talk about sustainable finance. We discuss what sustainable finance is…
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Ep176: A Creative and Collaborative Funding Solution
Arunava Mitra, CFO of Mitsubishi Power Americas, and Nik Nunes, CEO of Industrial Development Funding (IDF), join us to discuss their collaboration to provide…
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Ep175: Developing in the C&I Space
Brett Phillips, vice president, sustainable and responsible investments at Unico Solar, joins us to discuss the company and how it is developing projects in…
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Ep174: Building Better Batteries
Rick Luebbe, CEO of Group14, joins us to discuss how the company brings new performance capabilities to lithium-silicon batteries. We get into how Group14’s…
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Ep173: US Offshore Wind Market Update
Abby Watson, head of governmental affairs, North America at Siemens Gamesa, joins us to discuss the US offshore wind market. We discuss the trajectory of…
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Ep172: Supply Chain Ethics and Transparency in US Solar
Abby Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), joins us to discuss current supply chain ethics issues in the US solar…
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Ep171: Renewable Hydrogen Update
Jean-Louis Kindler, CEO of Ways2H, a company focused on turning the world’s waste into renewable hydrogen, joins us to discuss the company’s technology and the…
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Ep170: Green Power Aggregation with Enel
Mark McGrail, vice president of the commercial office at Enel Green Power North America, joins us to discuss green power aggregation. We get into the options…
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Ep169: What Sponsors Need to Know to Finance CCS Projects
Nick Knapp, senior managing director, and Mike Yurkerwich, director with CohnReznick Capital, join us to talk about what sponsors need to know to finance…
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Ep168: Data Centers: What Potential Investors Need to Know
Due to the increased investor appetite for digital infrastructure and growing governmental focus on improving connectivity, digital assets like data centers…
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Ep167: How Nuclear Technology Can Help Reach Carbon Goals
Bret Kugelmass, managing director of the Energy Impact Center, joins us to talk about why nuclear is his chosen technology to reach our carbon goals. We get…
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Ep166: Investing in Water Infrastructure
Damian Georgino, with Norton Rose Fulbright, joins us to discuss investing in water infrastructure. We start with how he got into the water space, what the…
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Ep165: Banking on Batteries
James Wright, managing director and head of renewables, clean energy and sustainability with CIBC Capital Markets, joins us to discuss batteries and energy…
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Ep164: Utility-Scale Transmission Line Development
Kimberlee Centera, CEO of TerraPro Solutions, joins us to discuss the critical aspects of utility-scale transmission development. We discuss key issues and…
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Ep163: Supply Chain Traceability
Andy Klump, CEO of Clean Energy Associates, joins us to discuss supply chain traceability. We get into the concerns over polysilicon made in Xinjiang that many…
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Ep162: Solar Risk Assessment Report 2021
Richard Matsui, CEO of kWh Analytics, and Joe Kastner, CEO of Radian Generation, join us to discuss the 2021 Solar Risk Assessment Report. We discuss the…
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Ep161: Reducing Project Costs by Mitigating Risk
Laura Pagliarulo, president of SolaREIT, joins us to talk about ways to reduce project costs in clean energy projects. We discuss how SolaREIT works with…
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Ep160: Spanish Inbound Investors
Nacho Ruiz Hens, managing director at Karbone, joins us to talk about breaking into the US renewable energy market for foreign investors, especially from…
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Ep159: SPAC Market Update
Trevor Pinkerton and Lior Nuchi with Norton Rose Fulbright join us to discuss the renewable energy SPAC market. We discuss the boom the SPAC market has seen in…
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Ep158: Long-Duration Energy Storage with Highview Power
Dr. Javier Cavada, CEO of Highview Power, joins us to talk about the energy storage technology on which the company is working. We discuss the energy storage…
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Ep157: The Missing Piece of the Carbon Accounting Puzzle
Lee Taylor, CEO of REsurety, joins us discuss the carbon accounting market. We discuss how the company has solved the missing piece of the carbon accounting…
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Ep156: Building a Clean Energy Economy
Danny Kennedy, an early pioneer in the residential solar rooftop sector and now CEO of New Energy Nexus, a non-profit that connects entrepreneurs to capital to…
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Ep155: A Green Infrastructure Investment Strategy
Daniel Goldman, co-founder and managing director of Clean Energy Ventures, joins us to discuss green infrastructure investment. We go over what Clean Energy…
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Ep154: Powering the UK with the Moroccan Sun
Simon Morrish, entrepreneur and CEO of Xlinks, joins us to discuss the ambitious Xlinks solar project, which transfers solar energy from Morocco via a 6.3 GW…
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Ep153: Biden's Infrastructure Plan
What is the outlook in Congress for the massive infrastructure plan that President Biden unveiled last week? Listen as four veteran Washington observers, John…
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Ep152: Offshore Wind in California
Adam Stern, executive director of Offshore Wind California, and Jim Berger, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, join us to discuss prospects and growing momentum…
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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…
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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 he…
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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…
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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 is…
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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 state…
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Ep145: Recycling Lithium Batteries
Kunal Phalpher, CCO of Li-Cycle, joins us to talk about recycling lithium-ion batteries. We get into the size of the market, what is recycled out of the…
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Ep144: Meet the DC Green Bank
Eli Hopson, CEO, and Jay Lurie, CIO, at the DC Green Bank join us to give an overview of the bank, why it was established and the goals it has set for itself…
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Ep143: The Current State of PPAs
Bryce Smith, CEO, and Rob Collier, vice president, developer relations of LevelTen Energy, join us to discuss the company and the current state of PPA offer…
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Ep142: Climate Adaptive Infrastructure
Bill Green, managing partner of Climate Adaptive Infrastructure, joins us to talk about the meaning of the firm’s name and its mandate. We get into how Climate…
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Ep141: Leveraging Technology to Scale Clean Energy
Rudy Roy, CEO of HST, joins us to discuss the technology company’s mission of improving people’s lives by scaling clean energy. We discuss how HST has scaled…
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Ep140: Cost of Capital: 2021 Outlook
Many developers struggled during 2020 to find tax equity. Economists expect growth to start slow and accelerate by year end. Interest rates remain low, but the…
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Ep139: Arcadia's Community Solar Strategy
Kiran Bhatraju, CEO of Arcadia, and Jorge Vargas, operating partner at Energy Impact Partners, join us to discuss Arcadia’s community solar strategy, including…
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Ep138: A Look at the Corporate PPA Market
John D. Powers, vice president, global renewables and cleantech at Schneider Electric, joins us for a close look at trends in the corporate renewable energy…
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Ep137: Community Solar Market Update
Adam Kuehne, senior vice president of project finance at Summit Ridge Energy, a leading owner-operator of community solar projects in the US, joins us for a…
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Ep136: Tax Extender Bill Unpacked
Keith Martin, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, joins us to unpack the tax extenders bill that cleared Congress on Monday night. We discuss how the bill…
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Ep135: Smart Technology in the Energy Industry
Nick Merricks, head of UK smart electricity meter products at Landis+Gyr, joins us to discuss smart technology in the energy industry. We discuss how COVID-19…
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Ep134: Developing Solar + Storage
Steve Vavrik, chief executive officer, Josh Prueher, chief financial officer, Mark Klein, chief operating officer, and Doug Moorehead, chief technology officer…
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Ep133: Clean Energy and Rural America’s Economic Rebound
Reid Spolek, energy lead at Google, Chris Hansen, vice president of origination and renewables at TVA, Spencer Sessions, senior manager of economic development…