How to de-risk cleantech investments

Episode 3 February 06, 2024 00:20:45
How to de-risk cleantech investments
Energy Transitions
How to de-risk cleantech investments

Feb 06 2024 | 00:20:45

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Hosted By

Pamela Largue

Show Notes

The cleantech investment space is an ever-evolving and complex ecosystem, with increasing pressure to innovate and an increasing need for investment to bring new technology to fruition.

And while there have been some big investments over the past decade, a liquidity crunch, rising interest rates and geopolitical tumult are making the cleantech investment landscape tricky to navigate.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions Podcast, Joseph Jacobelli, managing partner of Bougie Impact Capital and host of The Asia Climate Capital Podcast, delves into identifying and mitigating the risks impacting the cleantech investment space.

Jacobelli unpacks the importance of policy and government support in fostering investor confidence and explains why China continues to dominate the space.

He also answers the question about which technologies are gaining the most attention from investors and why.

"What make investors most comfortable are those technologies with a long track record...and whose levelised cost of energy per unit of electricity produced is falling relatively quickly..."

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