Advait Arun

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The Natural Gas Turbine Crisis

1 month ago | heatmap.news | Advait Arun

Thanks to skyrocketing investment in data centers, manufacturing, and electrification, American electricity demand is now expected to grow nearly 16% over the next four years, a striking departure from two decades of tepid load growth.
The President Won’t Be the Problem for the U.S. at COP

Oct 31, 2024 | heatmap.news | Advait Arun

Less than a week after election night in the U.S., the United Nations’ annual climate conference begins in Azerbaijan. COP29, as this year’s conference is called, has climate finance and carbon markets on the agenda. It’s no secret that the outcome of the U.S. presidential election could shift the tenor of negotiations significantly on both topics. Everyone knows there’s one candidate who’s better for the climate and one who will be much, much worse.
What Happened to Running Tide?

Jun 17, 2024 | heatmap.news | Jessica Hullinger |Jeva Lange |Advait Arun |Katie Brigham

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The Problem With Climate Finance Targets

Jun 17, 2024 | heatmap.news | Advait Arun |Katie Brigham |Andrew Moseman

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Kathy Hochul’s Climate Betrayal

Jun 5, 2024 | heatmap.news | Robinson Meyer |Jeva Lange |Advait Arun

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How Tax Credit “Chaining” Expands the Reach of the IRA — Center for Public Enterprise

May 29, 2024 | publicenterprise.org | Yakov Feygin |Advait Arun

Access our brief on tax credit chaining here. The IRA expanded the availability of tax equity finance through two provisions. First, it allowed for tax credits to be transferred to third-party investors, broadening the market and reducing the cost of finance for renewable energy project development. Second, it created an elective pay option for tax-exempt government and nonprofit entities, allowing them to monetize tax credits by applying for a direct payment from the IRS.
Making the Most of SEFI: A Model RFI — Center for Public Enterprise

May 13, 2024 | publicenterprise.org | Chirag Lala |Advait Arun |Yakov Feygin |Paul Williams

Download the memo and model RFI here. The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the largest pots of climate funding in the federal government. The LPO functions as the DOE’s investment bank, offering loans and loan guarantees at concessionary rates to eligible project developers.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Part 3: Public Options Support Public Finance — Center for Public Enterprise

May 3, 2024 | publicenterprise.org | Advait Arun |Yakov Feygin

By Advait Arun and Yakov FeyginSee previous: Part 1 and Part 2Entities seeded by the GGRF will have to change their strategy when governing the markets that they created: they will have to work to become public options that compete with and shape the behavior of other market participants. This is important not only because private investors may underbuild, but because they may deliver bad outcomes.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Part 2: How to make a market — Center for Public Enterprise

Apr 25, 2024 | publicenterprise.org | Advait Arun |Yakov Feygin

By Yakov Feygin and Advait ArunThe EPA’s announcement of the first round of GGRF recipients marks the “end of the beginning.” For the past decade, the advocates of green banking have pushed for federal financial involvement in green lending. The GGRF is the first small step in this direction.
Tesla Just Recalled Nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks

Apr 19, 2024 | heatmap.news | Jessica Hullinger |Advait Arun |Jeva Lange

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