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Loan Programs Office

also referred to as: lpo

9 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2023 by Jigar Shah · said 72 times in 18 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Stephen Lacey (36), Jigar Shah (12), Brandon Hurlbut (7), Elaine Hsieh (4), Eric Wesoff (3), Shomik Dutta (2), Michael Boyle (2), Tom Burton & Silas (Sales) Braga (1)

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Everything said about Loan Programs Office, oldest first

Jan 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shah: DOE contacted 500 climate tech CEOs to coordinate policy and capital
“We were able to call 500 CEOs across the climate tech space and say, what do you need? Like, you know, what do you need to actually do what you've said you're going to do? And it was the first time that these CEOs had ever interacted in policy directly, and th…”
Jigar Shah Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 10:53 The make-or-break moment for America’s energy transition
Mar 8, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Shah: The US is on track to meet its domestic lithium needs
“You know, look, I think lithium, we're clearly on track, whether it's the Salton Sea, or whether it's Nevada, or whether it's, you know, some of the other mines that we've already identified in the processing facilities that the Loan Programs Office will fund.…”
Jigar Shah Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 32:06 Are oil & gas majors abandoning clean energy?
May 1, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Shah: DOE Loan Programs Office holds over $400B in loan authority
“Obviously, where we have over four hundred billion dollars of loan authority that we're putting to work to get this done.”
Jigar Shah May 1, 2023 ▶ 17:26 America’s green industrial strategy 2.0
May 1, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Shah: DOE Loan Programs Office has 134 applications seeking $121 billion
“We have a 134 applications in the Loan Programs Office seeking a hundred and twenty-one billion dollars of loan proceeds. It's in about a 165 locations out of those 134 applications, and many of them are in red districts.”
Jigar Shah May 1, 2023 ▶ 23:12 America’s green industrial strategy 2.0
Aug 15, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
St. John: Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program has $250B lending authority
“This two hundred fifty billion dollars in lending authority for something called the energy infrastructure reinvestment program. It's also called section, section 17 oh six.”
Jeff St. John Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 42:38 America’s historic climate law, one year on
Oct 16, 2023 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Hsieh: DOE has $43B available to deploy over the next six months
“Just in the next six months or so, it's almost, it's more than, like, forty-three billion. That's just right now. I mean, we've already deployed sixty-seven billion. So there's a ton, and that's not even including the loan program.”
Elaine Hsieh Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 50:57 Investors riff on the new era for climate investing
Dec 22, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hamilton: DOE Loan Programs Office Received $11.7B Under IRA
“Loan Programs Office was the big winner in the Inflation Reduction Act, so they have, you know, 11.7 billion dollars of new loan appropriations that they're trying to execute on.”
Katherine Hamilton Dec 22, 2023 ▶ 5:27 The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
Apr 26, 2024 positive
What-if
Hurlbut: EV market would not exist without DOE loan to Tesla
“You know, we invested in Tesla, and that spurred the entire electrical vehicle market, and that wouldn't have happened without that government capital at a cheap rate.”
Brandon Hurlbut Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 18:36 Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Shah: Clean energy companies must stop hiding their DOE loan applications
“People are so afraid of having anyone hate them that they're like, oh, I don't want to mention that we're a, we're an applicant to the loan programs office. I don't want to mention that we're, you know, applying for this grant or whatever else, right? That's n…”
Jigar Shah Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 7:28 Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
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