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CEO of Marathon Capital, LLC, Ted Brandt, discusses the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on deals in the renewables sector, challenges in true sequestration, and potential opportunities in carbon capture and enhanced oil recovery. The podcast also explores the transferability of tax credits, the nature of buyers in the renewable energy market, and investment opportunities in clean energy and green chemical companies.

Jeff Hendler, CEO of Logical Buildings, and our host Todd Alexander discuss the Climate Mobilization Act, what it is and how it affects the CRE and energy industries, how the statute is being implementedacross various building types and what opportunities it creates for investors and property owners.

CohnReznick Capital’s Michael Tatarsky, Managing Director, and Colin Smith, Senior Research Analyst, join Todd Alexander to discuss the Market Cost of Energy (MCOE) in the wake of the Inflation Reduction Act. They go over how the IRA will affect pricing, the impact on PPA’s and how the market has reacted.

The Inflation Reduction Act last August let companies sell nine types of federal tax credits to other companies for cash. The window opened on such sales on January 1. Five market veterans discuss how the market is developing. Moderator Keith Martin is joined by Ted Brandt, CEO of Marathon Capital, Jack Cargas, Managing Director and Head of Tax Equity Origination at Bank of America, Billy Lee, President of Reunion (an electronic trading platform), Rubiao Song, Managing Director and Head of Energy Investments at JPMorgan, and Jamie Stahle, Senior Managing Director of CCA Group.

Martin McCann, partner in London, joins Todd Alexander to discuss the global mining supply chain. We discuss how the global EV boom is affecting precious metal mining, the competition among countries to be top in mining and battery manufacturing, how the Inflation Reduction Act is affecting investment in mining, how car makers are taking advantage of IRA tax credits, and more.

Ep203: Transferability of Tax Credits Hilary Lefko, partner in Washington, joins Todd Alexander to discuss the transferability of tax credits. We discuss how federal transferability compares to the existing market for sales of state tax credits, how developers are taking advantage of transferability, how lenders look at it, what the market looks like for brokers, what has surprised Hilary about the market’s adoption of transferability, the timeline for the issuance of guidance and more.

Tim Byrne, Eric Daucher and Tom Delaney join Todd Alexander to discuss the formation of the bridge banks for Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and what to expect from them and government regulation going forward. We get into what will happen in terms of loans, outstanding credit arrangements and contractual obligations, the good news for depositors, how the bridge banks are backed, the effects on the Silicon Valley Bank parent company and the warrants the bank had, the outlook for tighter regulation of mid-size banks in the future, the next steps for a potential auction, and more.

Silicon Valley Bank was placed into receivership on March 10. Tim Byrne, Eric Daucher and Tom Delaney join Todd Alexander to discuss what has unfolded for Silicon Valley Bank over the weekend and what it means for the project finance community. We discuss why a bridge bank would have been set up, if there are bankruptcy concerns for investors with funds in collateral accounts, depositors’ access to funds in their accounts, what existing borrowers may experience with additional extensions of credit and what we think will happen over the next 72 hours.

Four veteran tax equity investors and lenders talk about what to expect in the year ahead. The five are Jack Cargas, managing director and head of tax equity origination, Bank of America, Ralph Cho, co-head of power & infrastructure finance - US, EU and UK, Investec Group, Rubiao Song, managing director and head of energy investments, JPMorgan, and Elizabeth Waters, managing director - project finance Americas, MUFG. The moderator is Keith Martin in Washington.

Stefan Reisinger, partner in Washington, joins us to discuss the Department of Commerce’s preliminary determination of circumvention issues. We go over the general reaction to the order, which solar panels and cells are covered by the preliminary determination, the significance for the four companies found to be circumventing, the impact the determination will have on panels that have entered before the determination was issued and more.