🎧 #137: Jigar Shah wants to fund your Virtual Power Plant
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"We pay $10 billion per year for balancing the grid using natural gas, peaker plants, etc. when we could be paying that to households for those services instead."
-Jigar Shah
My Highlights
- How smart and decarbonized is Jigar's home? (2:30)
- Business model innovation and unlocking decarbonization at scale (4:20)
- Deployment-led innovation (5:50)
- Moving from the 'what' to the 'how' (7:02)
- An overview of the Loan Programs Office (8:52)
- Where loans are targeted in the technology adoption lifecycle (14:30)
- Getting real estate owners to use loans to decarbonize their buildings (16:07)
- Virtual Power Plants (25:55)
- Connecting buildings to data communication streams (35:10)
- The scope of these incentives (44:35)
- Carveouts (46:18)
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