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This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington Oct 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:29 Shomik Dutta In the market, and that's where the Department of Energy Loan Program stepped in repeatedly to help critical national technologies reach their day in the sun. 2 times in the scene

John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition Aug 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:51 Lara Pierpoint and I was thinking about that today as I saw the cancellation, or I should say the administration's attempted cancellation of a loan, uh, from the loan programs office, a loan guarantee, uh,

Open Circuit: Jigar, Katherine, and Stephen are back Feb 19, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:35 Stephen Lacey Jigar finished his tour of duty running the DOE's loan programs office, where he invested tens of billions of dollars into clean technologies, and Katherine has been hard at work implementing the IRA and moving the industry forward on the…
  • ▶ 3:24 Stephen Lacey Jigar Shah is a clean energy investor and was Director of DOE's Loan Programs Office up until just a few weeks ago.
  • ▶ 21:39 Jigar Shah So, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is clearly, clearly being targeted, right, at the Department of Energy, and I think the Loan Programs Office 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:31 Stephen Lacey I want to turn first to John Sneed, who's back as director of the Loan Programs Office. 6 times in the scene

The ‘third inning’ of the energy transition [partner content] Dec 4, 2024 · 1 mention

Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far Jul 16, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:07 Stephen Lacey Jigar, the last time we spoke to you, you were merely the director of the Loan Programs Office and a member of the Time 100 Climate List, but today you're coming to us as one of Time One Hundred's most influential people of…
  • ▶ 7:28 Jigar Shah 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.
  • ▶ 58:08 Stephen Lacey Jigar Shah, Director of the DOE's Loan Programs Office, so good to see you.

Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat? Apr 26, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 18:29 Brandon Hurlbut Of starting and incubating and then catalyzing entire industries, like we did with the loan program office and Tesla.
  • ▶ 38:00 Brandon Hurlbut This program, near and dear to my heart, I served on the investment committee for it. 6 times in the scene

Virtual power plants: the ‘sandwich’ for the grid Feb 15, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57 Stephen Lacey Jen Downing is an Engagement Officer at the DOE's Loan Programs Office. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:05 Jen Downing Picked up in our LPO pipeline, but it's just through our, through my conversations, uh, with utilities in writing the liftoff report have, uh, seen a lot of great leadership, um, across the country.
  • ▶ 33:53 Stephen Lacey Jen Downing, Engagement Officer at the DOE Loan Programs Office and VPP aficionado, thank you so much for breaking this all down for us.

The storylines of the energy transition in 2023 Dec 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:27 Katherine Hamilton Certainly, um, 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.

Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles Dec 12, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 38:47 Eric Wesoff There's enormous amount of money going into the demonstration program in the DOE, and the, and, and, and the, the, the loan, loan programs, loans program? 3 times in the scene

Investors riff on the new era for climate investing Oct 16, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 19:58 Elaine Hsieh We need to do it very quickly, and so they brought in a lot of leaders from the private sector, including Jigar Shah from, who's the Director of our Loan Programs Office. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:29 Elaine Hsieh Competitive grants, so that's free money, tax credits, obviously loans from that loan programs office, um, you know, they do have their criteria, but even if you're not necessarily eligible, maybe your state is, or your utility is, or your… 2 times in the scene

New frontiers of clean energy emerge Sep 21, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:47 Stephen Lacey Um, and, and Jigar Shah, uh, you know, former co-host of the energy gang, a friend of the pod, uh, who runs the DOE's, uh, loan programs office, told Nico Johnson of Suncast, um, I saw this quote that the solar industry is now
  • ▶ 37:39 Jeff St. John That's why LPO, I think, is putting so much money behind some of these, uh, battery recyclers, including Redwood Materials and Licycle for its New York recycling facility.

As debate over carbon removal swirls, America steps up funding Aug 23, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:39 Savvy Bowman So I know this can seem daunting and almost insurmountable, but I think what's really important is that the Department of Energy recently issued a report, the Carbon Management Liftoff Report by the Loan Programs Office, and that report…

America’s historic climate law, one year on Aug 15, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 41:10 Stephen Lacey So we can't really have this conversation about industrial decarbonization without talking about the loan programs office led by, uh, friend of the pod. 4 times in the scene

Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff? May 17, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:55 Stephen Lacey And Jigar is the Director of the DOE's Loan Programs Office. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:44 Jigar Shah The loan program's office was dormant for a decade, but also, um, the world was talking about how the technologies that we had available to deploy were not worth deploying, and that we needed to double down on innovation instead of…

America’s green industrial strategy 2.0 May 1, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:54 Stephen Lacey And behind us on a big screen patched in remotely were Jigar Shah, another longtime collaborator who runs the loan programs office at the Department of Energy.
  • ▶ 8:19 Stephen Lacey He is the director of the Loan Programs Office at the Department of Energy.
  • ▶ 17:26 Jigar Shah Obviously, where we have over four hundred billion dollars of loan authority that we're putting to work to get this done.
  • ▶ 23:12 Jigar Shah I mean, look, we have a 134 applications in the Loan Programs Office seeking a hundred and twenty-one billion dollars of loan proceeds.

Are oil & gas majors abandoning clean energy? Mar 8, 2023 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 5:07 Stephen Lacey Jigar Shah is the Director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S.
  • ▶ 14:36 Stephen Lacey The first loan guarantee coming out of LPO, uh, when you took over in the office was, uh, for hydrogen, this project in Utah that could potentially double green hydrogen production in the U.S. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:16 Jigar Shah And then you have one further select, which the Loan Programs Office is involved in, which is, where have you actually attracted capital where somebody has actually started doing the work, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:35 Stephen Lacey Um, but Jigar, you actually write a blog at the DOE on VPPs, which clearly shows that there's, like, interest at LPO on this area.
  • ▶ 47:07 Stephen Lacey And Jigar Shah is the Director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S.

Stunning new data on coal vs renewables Feb 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:52 Michael Boyle The tool that was made available in the Inflation Reduction Act was the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program under the Loan Program Office. 2 times in the scene

The make-or-break moment for America’s energy transition Jan 19, 2023 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 2:08 Jigar Shah Jigar Shah, the Director of the Loan Programs Office here at the Department of Energy.
  • ▶ 10:33 Jigar Shah The only thing I can get you is, you know, it'd be a contractor here at the long programs office.
  • ▶ 15:29 Jigar Shah And that's the critical role that we're playing at the loan programs office is because we have, um,
  • ▶ 16:43 Stephen Lacey How does this new loan authority, a hundred billion dollars, change or accelerate what you're doing at the loan programs office, Jigar? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:22 Stephen Lacey Jigar Shah is director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S.
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