"Someone has to go first, and that's the Loan Programs Office...then you've got the second through sixth deployment...now that we've done the first one, can we do the second through sixth one better?"
LPO Director Jigar Shah recently joined Chris Hayes for his "Why Is This Happening" podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about how LPO and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are working on private sector-led, goverment-enabled deployments of green tech across U.S. energy and advanced transportation sectors. Director Shah walks through the history and mission of the DOE Loan Programs Office, how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has "supercharged" LPO programs, and what it will take to overcome obstacles to large-scale deployment of clean energy tech in order to accelerate decarbonization and create jobs across the nation.
Listen to the hour-long episode via Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gQiArDqG, Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gF38jQqr, or Google Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gHEHH5Sm and learn more about LPO financing at Energy.gov/LPO
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