Katie Bayes

Director of Research, Crux · 1 appearance on the record.

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analystfounderexecutive@energybays ↗cruxclimate.com ↗

She analyzes clean energy capital markets, regulatory risk, and transferable clean energy tax credits, authoring market intelligence reports for Crux. Earlier in her career, she co-founded the energy and regulatory advisory firm Sandhill Strategy and served as Senior Vice President at Height Capital Markets.

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5 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Katie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Bayes: Bridge lending has broadened beyond traditional tax equity requirements

“We also saw significant growth in the bridge lending market, and bridge, bridge loans have been around for a long time, but they've generally always been available once a developer has secured a tax equity partner. Now what we see is that The variety of bridge…”

Katie Bayes Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 9:22 Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Bayes: 2025 Clean Energy Investment Was Front-Loaded for Safe Harbor

“I mean, we absolutely saw that investment Almost across the board was front-loaded into the first half of twenty-twenty-five, and so that's a reflection of the desire in many ways by developers to achieve certain safe harbor milestones so that they essentially…”

Katie Bayes Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 18:15 Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]

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What they said6 Episodes1

Everything Katie Bayes said on Catalyst that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Bayes: Renewables hedge geopolitical disruption while fossil fuels hedge grid reliability

“Fossil fuels or conventional fuels are a hedge on reliability, ultimately, that they provide reliability benefits to a system that has become more reliant on, ah, intermittent sources of electricity, but clean energy systems or renewables are a hedge on geopol…”

Katie Bayes Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 29:05 Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Bayes: Projects with $500M+ tax credit tranches grew from two to dozens

“So, for instance, when we did our first report, we found, I think, maybe two, there were perhaps two projects that had tax credit Tronches are entitled to generate a tax credit in excess of five hundred million dollars. That number is into the dozens now.”

Katie Bayes Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 10:48 Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bayes: Clean energy financing bifurcated between bank debt and private credit

“So we see a bit of a bifurcation between the traditional kind of project finance bank capital source, which remains very Cost competitive for a lot of developers. And then some of our newer, smaller developers who are accessing other forms of capital, includin…”

Katie Bayes Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 11:15 Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]