Loan Programs Office

also referred to as: lpo

7 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 10, 2022 by Jigar Shah · said 64 times in 15 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shayle Kann (38), Rob Hanson (7), David Yeh (4), Lara Pierpoint (3), Jigar Shah (3), Jamie Beard (3), Varun Sivaram (1), Trevor Houser (1)

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Jan 10, 2022
Assertion Supported
Shah: LPO statute authorizes financing the first two to six facilities
“And our statute allows us to do the first, you know, two to six facilities.”
Jigar Shah Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 41:19 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen
Jan 10, 2022
Assertion Supported
Shah: LPO due diligence costs climate tech borrowers up to $2M
“You do have to pay for all of our costs, which can easily be one and a half to two million dollars to sort of do due diligence on the project, right?”
Jigar Shah Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 42:25 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen
Apr 28, 2022 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Shah: DOE LPO has $15B in proposed sustainable aviation fuel applications
“I think we have fifteen billion dollars at this point of sustainable aviation fuel projects that have been proposed to the office.”
Jigar Shah Apr 28, 2022 ▶ 43:31 Hydrogen, meet salt cavern
Dec 15, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
DOE Loan Programs Office pledges financing for projects with FMC offtakers
“Jigar's committed to invest in projects that have first mover coalition companies as offtakers, because, you know, that, that de-risks his loan guarantee.”
Varun Sivaram Dec 15, 2022 ▶ 45:00 Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
Feb 2, 2023 neutral
Insight
Kann: DOE Loan Programs Office will not take heavy technology risk
“The LPO is really well set up for big stuff, And even there, first of all, you know, they're not intending to take a ton of technology risk either, so you have to be fairly mature and at a fairly large scale for the LPO funding to make sense for you.”
Shayle Kann Feb 2, 2023 ▶ 18:36 Mailbag episode! Biotech, layoffs, battery recycling and more
Dec 21, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Yeh: The DOE Loan Programs Office holds $400 billion post-IRA
“I think the LPO now with IRA money is, you know, has about four hundred billion dollars in resources, and I think they've become, for lack of a better word, must-see TV, or the key stop for any company that's doing an ambitious climate tech, hard tech startup,…”
David Yeh Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 20:06 Financing first-of-a-kind climate assets
Jan 11, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Zou: Six of top ten climate mega-deals leveraged major public financing
“The second major thing we're noticing across these mega deals is if you look at the funding they've raised in the last two years, I think six out of 10 had raised significant hundreds of millions of dollars of public financing or government-funded rounds, whet…”
Kim Zou Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 19:30 2023 climate tech venture investment trends
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