Currents

Kat Gamache, senior counsel at Norton Rose Fulbright, joins us to discuss all things energy PPAs. We go into the biggest differences between traditional renewable PPAs and PPAs with storage, how pricing is handled, the types of batteries she is seeing in the market, lifespan terms in combined resource projects and more.

Jared Quient, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at BayWa r.e., joins us to discuss the innovative PPA structure the company recently used to finance its 100 MW solar deal in North Carolina, from there we expand the discussion to the environment for solar development in the US.

Dr. Becca Jones-Albertus, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office, joins us to talk about what the office does and the programs it has funded in the past. The office recently announced $130 million of new funding, $3 million of which has been allocated for “Innovative Solar Finance”; she gets into how you can submit a project for funding, how the solar office tracks the success of its projects and more.

Richard Matsui, CEO and co-founder of kWh Analytics, joins us again to share the company's popular Solar Lendscape and discuss the current solar market. He goes into why the company created the Lendscape, what is currently going on in debt markets for solar projects, how new lenders are getting into the market, how deals with progressively shorter PPAs are being financed, lenders' comfort levels with merchant risk and more.

John Mauel, partner in our Houston office, joins us to discuss the current US LNG market. We take the discussion from an overview of the global LNG industry to where the US market fits into the global transformation. John shares his experiences in the rapidly evolving market and his predictions for the future.

John Eber, former CEO of JPM Capital Corporation, joins us for a conversation about lessons learned over a 30-year career working as a prominent tax equity investor.

Marion Hill, business line director, renewable energy for North America of DNV GL, joins us to discuss the company's "2018 Energy Transition Outlook." We talk about the model on which the outlook is based and how the DNV GL outlook differs from other energy outlooks, when DNV GL thinks the world will hit peak energy demand and why it thinks demand in North America has already peaked.

Alfred Griffin, president of the NY Green Bank, joins us to discuss its mission, what types of deals it is authorized to do and the benefits of borrowing from it. We get into where opportunity currently lies for entrepreneurs, what kind of pricing is offered and more.

Listen in as Lee Taylor, CEO of REsurety, joins Todd Alexander and Rob Eberhardt to give us a refresher course on covariance risk. Lee answers everything from what it is and why you should care about it to who wears the risk in a project and what commercial and industrial buyers can do about when facing it.

Rob Gramlich, CEO of Grid Strategies, joins us to discuss a recent report on reforms needed in the PJM and MISO electricity markets for renewable energy to become competitive. He explains how different technologies can improve the reliability of wind and solar output, the changes needed in the market for a high-penetration renewable energy scenario, how transmission fits in and more.