Have a cool clean energy project? Jigar Shah has $400 billion to lend

Jigar Shah is on a multi-billion dollar mission to upgrade U.S. energy for the AI age

The director of the Loan Programs Office is helping upgrade the U.S. energy economy with a record-setting pot of cash, while Republicans—and AI—nip at his feet:

BY Alex Pasternack

Editor’s note: Due to a miscommunication by Fast Company over the terms of our interview access with Jigar Shah, the director of the Loan Programs Office of the Energy Department, Fast Company has decided to remove this story. We regret the error.

 

 

Have a cool clean energy project? Jigar Shah has $400 billion to lend | DeviceDaily.com

Shah pressed his case in front of investors and bankers last month at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston [Photo: CERAWeek by S&P Global]

Have a cool clean energy project? Jigar Shah has $400 billion to lend | DeviceDaily.com
Ongoing LPO-supported projects pictured are on the map in green for advanced transportation, blue for Title 17 clean energy projects, and orange for energy projects on tribal lands. See the live map at LPO’s website. [Screenshot: DOE]
Have a cool clean energy project? Jigar Shah has $400 billion to lend | DeviceDaily.com
The LPO is handling more than two hundred loan requests across a range of technologies, according to its most recent monthly report [Image: DOE]
Have a cool clean energy project? Jigar Shah has $400 billion to lend | DeviceDaily.com

One of a series of New Deal-inspired posters hailing the emerging technologies supported by the LPO. [Image: DOE]

 

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alex Pasternack is a contributing editor at Fast Company who covers technology and science, and the founding editor of Vice’s Motherboard. Reach him at apasternack@fastcompany.com and on Twitter at @pasternack 

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