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Critical Climate Infrastructure: Scott Jacobs, Generate Capital
FromClimate Rising
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Generate Capital invests in and operates technologies that provide distributed clean energy and energy efficiency, electric vehicles and charging depots, and waste transformation—technologies important to efforts to mitigate climate change. CEO Scott Jacobs (HBS MBA 2007) describes how Generate Capital’s keys to success involve applying new business models and new financing models to tried and true technology and existing infrastructure, and in many cases taking on both financing and operating roles, much like a utility. Its approach seeks to bring to scale technologies critical for addressing climate change.
Released:
Apr 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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