Jurowicz: Venture Global raised over $35B in project finance for modular LNG
Jake Jurowicz · Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear? · Aug 12, 2026 · at 19:20
Jake Jurowicz, CEO of Blue Energy, cites Venture Global LNG as an operational precedent for using shipyard modular prefabrication to achieve commercial project financing.
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“So they did this and it cut the construction time in half. It allowed them to fully project finance what was a first of a kind project down in Louisiana. And now they've done over thirty five billion in project finance this way and scaled it up very quickly.”
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