Currents Podcast

Project finance, renewable energy and more

Currents features in-depth discussions on the latest developments in project finance. The podcast is hosted by partner James Berger, who interviews key business leaders and policy makers to investigate important trends affecting the energy and infrastructure space.

 

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Ep371: What It Takes to Finance New Nuclear
Currents Podcast | Ep371: What It Takes to Finance New Nuclear

Ep371: What It Takes to Finance New Nuclear

Chris Calavitta, head of project finance at Oklo, explains how the company plans to finance its small modular nuclear reactors, from funding its first plant with its own equity to using later projects to build a repeatable, lender‑ready asset class.

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Ep371: What It Takes to Finance New Nuclear
Currents Podcast | Ep371: What It Takes to Finance New Nuclear

Ep371: What It Takes to Finance New Nuclear

Chris Calavitta, head of project finance at Oklo, explains how the company plans to finance its small modular nuclear reactors, from funding its first plant with its own equity to using later projects to build a repeatable, lender‑ready asset class.

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Ep370: Bring Your Own Capacity: Powering Data Centers With Distributed Energy
Norton Rose Fulbright | Currents Ep370: Bring Your Own Capacity: Powering Data Centers With Distributed Energy

Ep370: Bring Your Own Capacity: Powering Data Centers With Distributed Energy

This panel features Tom Rowlands Rees of BloombergNEF, Kevin Berkemeyer of Station A, Marissa Galizia of Voltus and Derek Lim Soo of Peak Power discussing how bring your own capacity programs let data centers and other large loads fund distributed batteries and demand response to connect to the grid faster.

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Ep369: The Path to Commercial Space‑Based Solar
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Ep369: The Path to Commercial Space‑Based Solar

John Bucknell, CEO of Virtus Solis Technologies, explains how his company plans to collect solar energy in orbit and send it to ground stations by microwave, providing continuous, low‑cost power for large loads such as data centers.

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Ep368: Bringing Battery Storage to Dense Cities
Norton Rose Fulbright | Currents Podcast Ep368: Bringing Battery Storage to Dense Cities

Ep368: Bringing Battery Storage to Dense Cities

James McGinniss, CEO of David Energy, explains how plug‑in batteries and retail electricity supply can lower energy costs for commercial customers in dense urban markets like New York City.

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Ep367: Building Grid Resilience Against Extreme Weather
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Ep367: Building Grid Resilience Against Extreme Weather

Mishal Thadani, CEO of Rhizome, explains how utilities can combine asset data, outage history and climate models to identify their highest extreme weather risks and plan resilience investments.

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Ep366: New Rules, Tariffs and Project Risk
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Ep366: New Rules, Tariffs and Project Risk

Luke Edney, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, discusses how new regulatory developments, tariffs and supply chain constraints are affecting procurement and construction for energy projects.

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Ep365: Energy as a Service in a Constrained Grid
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Ep365: Energy as a Service in a Constrained Grid

Mariko Meier, CEO of Unison Energy, discusses how on‑site microgrids help commercial, industrial and data center customers manage energy reliability, cost certainty and carbon goals.

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Ep364: Inside Middle Market Tax Credit Transactions
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Ep364: Inside Middle Market Tax Credit Transactions

Iñigo Rengifo, CEO of Concentro, discusses how tax credit transfers are being executed in the middle market and distributed generation sectors.

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Ep363: How Tariffs Are Reshaping Renewable Project Costs
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Ep363: How Tariffs Are Reshaping Renewable Project Costs

Stefan Riesinger, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, discusses the current state of tariffs affecting the renewable energy industry.

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