After topping Infralogic's 1H24 rankings report for renewables financing, Santander's Head of Energy Structured Finance for EMEA, Bart White, joins the Crossroads podcast to share his thoughts on the market.

The Spain-based bank is mandated on a wide variety of sector financing and M&A transactions and White shared his thoughts about the current state of the market, the financeability of new technologies like batteries, carbon capture and hydrogen, as well as financing innovations the bank is rolling out.

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Milbank partner Allan Marks joins Infralogic's Crossroads podcast, to discuss how the 2024 election could impact growth in the US renewables sector.

He shares his perspectives on how the next president of the United States could impact the legislative agenda, federal agencies and their ongoing efforts to decarbonize.

Deal Rocket, an energy project development accelerator from Siemens Energy, is currently engaging potential LPs, GPs and development partners. Infralogic's Senior Reporter Onofrio Castiglia sat down with Raj Lall, director of private equity and venture lead for the program, to discuss near-term opportunities, the market outlook and the group's investment thesis.

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Hamish Lea-Wilson, Head of Europe at Igneo Infrastructure Partners, and Michael Ryder, a Partner and Co-Head of the Igneo team in North America, appear on Infralogic's Crossroads podcast to discuss data centers, the energy transition for rail and the offshore wind market with senior reporter Liam Ford.

Lea-Wilson and Ryder discuss how Igneo's digital infrastructure company US Signal and the firm's other portfolio companies are working together on renewables strategy for data centers. They also talk about how Igneo's Patriot Rail is preparing for increased electrification and the differences between the mature offshore wind market in Europe and the struggling offshore wind market in the US.

The New York Energy and Research Development Authority's Offshore Wind Director, Greg Lampman, joins Crossroads to discuss the current state of the US offshore wind sector, and New York's plans to develop 9 GW of offshore capacity by 2035.

Ted Brandt, founder and CEO of Marathon Capital, discusses the state of the renewable energy industry, including growing concerns about what a Republican administration would mean for the sector.

Richard Dovere, the founder and CEO of DispatchEnergy, joined host Andrew Vitelli to discuss his new firm and explain why he believes distributed generation has a role to play in the energy transition.

Marathon Capital's Matt Shanahan joins the Crossroads podcast to discuss the outlook for the renewable energy sector, and the changing role of tax equity financing.

Following its recent presidential election, Mexico is facing several energy challenges, including declining oil and gas production, a need to increase exploration activity, a high dependence on gasoline imports, a constrained power supply and public pressure to transition to renewable energy. All this is occurring as domestic demand continues to grow through the decade, Adrian Lara, principal analyst, upstream Latin America for Wood Mackenzie, discusses the increased private investment needed in Mexico to meet expanding demand for energy.

Robert Poole, Directory of Transportation Policy at the Reason Foundation, talks about findings from the recently released 2024 Annual Privatization Report. Mr. Poole discusses some key trends in infrastructure fund investment, pension fund investment, and greenfield P3s, and what impact those trends may have this year.