Investment

I just got back from Costa Rica, which has, for the last decade, famously relied on a diverse mix of renewable energy to power its 11 TWh grid, part of a long-standing national tradition of protecting the earth and a strategy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Although Costa Rica is not densely populated, with […]

Everywhere you click, it’s difficult not to see a negative news article about renewable energy in the United States. Very few days go by that a project has been derailed or flat-out failed by the current political landscape. And the impact is both upstream and downstream–land and water project development, project financing, manufacturing costs, and […]

Six months into the Trump Presidency and it’s fair to say that renewable energy optimism is officially waning. It seems like an eternity since the market boomed from the emergence from the pandemic, the Great Resignation, and the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act. More recently, even as our industry investments slowed with the rise […]

Tuesday was a beautiful, sunny, spring day in New York City. A perfect day for solar energy production and catching rays! Instead of sunning in Central Park, I joined 250 renewable energy professionals at the US Development & Finance Forum run by NPM Events. New Project Media (NPM) is better known for their project development […]

As I get ready for my first renewable energy conference that requires flying over an ocean, I started thinking more about solar in the Caribbean. In a few weeks time, I will take off for San Juan, Puerto Rico for the annual SESA Summit. If you don’t know the backstory on SESA, I’ll fill you in: Solar […]