Three new explainers spotlight innovation and acceleration.
Three new explainers spotlight innovation and acceleration.
News focused exclusively on financing for
energy efficiency and renewable energy
We put together this newsletter to lift sights toward a fossil-free future through explanations and stories. Our motivation matches, in spirit, the force that keeps you grinding out deals and testing out ideas. 
In that conviction, we bring two new writers forward with explanations of how companies grow and how we migrate our economy to a sounder foundation. Bryson Wiese shares an explainer about how venture capitalists are staking significant new companies and technologies. Elizabeth Stagg lays out how converting buildings to electric systems saves money in the short term while stabilizing the long term.
And our news roundup, now tighter to fit your time, shows global and local economic leaders acting like it's time for theories to evolve into programs and profits. We hope this news helps your heaviest lifting. 


From Our Team
Have Venture Investors Learned the True Tempo For Changing the Economy?
Bryson Wiese
Whether you manage investments for pensions or place bets for day-traders, your reasoning rests on how societies deal with carbon pollution. Venture investors, who put capital in startups, may be learning that it takes time - and rounds - for decarbonization infrastructure to reach profitable cruising speed. Seeding is believing...
The Lightening in the Bottom Line: How Electric Buildings Save Owners Money
Elizabeth Stagg
Like the startup ecosystem, the property market can see swings in valuation when investors grow impatient for proof that sustainability pays. (Spoiler alert: it does.) In this explainer, claims about the income benefits of electric buildings meet counterclaims about those buildings' costs. Collect the bills..
The Current Gains Currency: Why Transmission Projects Take Sweet Time
David Landolfi 
Whether you know about how hailstones affect bifacial panels or about how lithium supply affects storage costs, you need to know more about transmission lines. Presumably you know that there aren't enough of them to carry clean power across the United States. Read on, because the story takes on more twists and turns... 

Notes From the Field

  • One of the United States' more perceptive climate reporters sees hope for just transition in Houston

Webinars and Events

Investment for Sustainable Development
Island Finance Forum
April 25-29, 2022, online
An Introduction to 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy & Hourly Matching: What, Why & How 
World Resources Institute
May 9, 2022 at 3 pm EDT, online
Aspen Ideas: Climate
The Aspen Institute
Miami Beach, FL
May 9-12, 2022
Mobile Solar + Storage For Emergency Management
Clean Energy States Alliance
May 10, 2022 at noon EDT, online

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Head of Offshore Wind
National Grid
Brooklyn, NY
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NASDAQ
New York, NY or San Francisco, CA
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Octopus Energy
Madrid, Spain or Munich, Germany



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