interest rates

7 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 19, 2022 by Saloni Multani · across every show →

Everything said about interest rates, oldest first

May 19, 2022 bullish
Insight
Multani: Higher power prices offset rising interest rates for clean energy projects
“The reason why I think the impact won't be as big is as you think about the contracts that get struck, right? It's a function of your ultimate spread is a function of your offtake minus your input costs. And so, and one of your input costs is going to be cost …”
Saloni Multani May 19, 2022 ▶ 33:01 How will the downturn affect climate tech?
Mar 30, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Multani: Innovation economy will not return to 2021 market conditions
“I don't think the impact of rising rates on the innovation economy and climate tech is, is over. I think, again, I don't think we can expect that this will pass, and we're going to go back to what it was in 21, early 22.”
Saloni Multani Mar 30, 2023 ▶ 34:27 SVB, the banking crisis and climatetech
Nov 9, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Kann: Offshore wind industry is reeling from higher interest rates
“That appears to be the straw that broke the camel's back, and like, the offshore wind industry is reeling, basically, as a result of that.”
Shayle Kann Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 18:43 Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
Nov 9, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kann: Clean energy developers face a painful shakeout over next few years
“Some developers are going to lose a bunch of money because they price things, you know, rates that are untenable today. Like it's just going to be a pain, a painful shakeout at the asset level for some period of time. I don't know exactly how long, partially b…”
Shayle Kann Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 19:18 Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
Nov 9, 2023 bearish
Prediction Held up
Kann: Residential solar market might contract over the next year
“Which the residential solar market between interest rates and some policy changes, particularly in California around net metering, that's a market that might be down over the next year. You know, relative to this year, and I think this year might be down relat…”
Shayle Kann Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 20:00 Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
Mar 14, 2024 negative
Insight
Matthew: Climate tech valuations suffer disproportionately from rising discount rates and debt costs
“In terms of the broader companies and their business models, oftentimes with some of these climate tech companies, you do have what we call capital intensity, meaning that you need to spend a lot of dollars at CapEx or R&D or et cetera to develop your product …”
Shanu Matthew Mar 14, 2024 ▶ 11:47 Climate tech’s tough year in the public markets
Jul 10, 2025 neutral
Insight
Dumoulin-Smith: Interest rate hikes are the principal driver of rising solar prices
“Yes, this is an incredibly interest rate sensitive product. Interests go up. That is the principal driver of raising prices.”
Julian Dumoulin-Smith Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 6:42 Tumult in residential solar
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