Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah Jigar Shah is an influencer

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Jigar Shah is currently a co-host of the Open Circuit podcast from Latitude Media. He is also a part-time Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. Most recently, Jigar oversaw the reinvigoration of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he helped inspire hundreds of entrepreneurs and innovators choose to invest in the USA to onshore manufacturing, innovative project finance, and tribal energy. With more than 25 years of experience in clean energy, he is an expert in project finance, clean technology, and entrepreneurship, as well as a visionary leader and innovator in the field of sustainable infrastructure.

Prior to joining the DOE, Shah co-founded and served as the President of Generate Capital, the leading investment and operating platform for distributed energy storage, microgrids, fuel cells, electric vehicles, and organic waste management. He also founded SunEdison, the inventor of the modern solar-as-a-service industry and served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson to help entrepreneurs address climate change. Shah is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy, a book that outlines his mission to scale the transition to a global clean energy economy.

In 2024, Jigar was named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024.

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  • DOE Loan Programs Office Graphic

    Director, DOE Loan Programs Office

    DOE Loan Programs Office

    - 3 years 11 months

    Washington DC

    LPO has more than $40 billion in loans and loan guarantees available to help deploy large-scale energy infrastructure projects in the United States. Over the past decade, LPO has closed more than $30 billion of deals that has saved 60 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, manufactured 20 million fuel-efficient vehicles in the U.S., and created clean electricity to power 49,000 homes annually.

    LPO does not compete with commercial lenders. LPO focuses on taking misunderstood technology…

    LPO has more than $40 billion in loans and loan guarantees available to help deploy large-scale energy infrastructure projects in the United States. Over the past decade, LPO has closed more than $30 billion of deals that has saved 60 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, manufactured 20 million fuel-efficient vehicles in the U.S., and created clean electricity to power 49,000 homes annually.

    LPO does not compete with commercial lenders. LPO focuses on taking misunderstood technology risks by leveraging thousands of engineers and scientists that work for the Department of Energy and the National Labs who can dive deep, understand new technologies, and work with borrowers to mitigate risks associated with bringing innovative tech to scale.

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    Co-Founder and President

    Generate Capital

    - 6 years 10 months

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Generate Capital is a specialty finance company based in San Francisco, California, founded by several leading entrepreneurs and financiers in the renewable energy, technology, finance and sustainability sectors. It partners with project developers and technology manufacturers globally to finance the Resource Revolution – doing more with less of our critical resources like energy, water, food and materials. For more information on Generate Capital, please visit www.generatecapital.com.

  • Partner

    Clean Feet Investors

    - 3 years 5 months

    New York, NY

    Putting my money where my mouth is

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    CEO

    Carbon War Room

    - 2 years 10 months

    The Carbon War Room is a non-profit organization whose mission is to immediately stop the business-as-usual systems and practices that proliferate carbon, and replace them with low-carbon and no-carbon innovations and alternatives that reverse or stop global warming.”

  • Founder, CEO

    SunEdison, LLC

    - 5 years 11 months

    Maryland, United States

    Founded this company in 2003. In charge of sales, strategy and long term planning as well as day-to-day duties. SunEdison unlocked the "solar as a service" model, created the first bankable contract and dedicated solar financing fund with Goldman Sachs in 2005. Through business model innovation, SunEdison led the solar industry from a small niche industry to a dominant multi-billion dollar solar industry worldwide.

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    Business Development

    BP Solar

    - 3 years 9 months

    Initially started in the M&A Group. Supported sales groups with financing and marketing support.

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    Analyst

    Energetics

    - 2 years 4 months

    Government Consulting - supported the Office of Transportation Technologies within the Department of Energy. Worked on the Partnership for a New Generation Vehicles; Fuel Cells; Clean Transportation Fuels; Clean Cities; Battery Technologies.

  • Engineer

    AstroPower

    - 3 months

    Worked in Chemical Preparation part of the manufacturing plant.

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  • Retail Competition is back! Are utilities ready?

    Energy Biz

    I have co-authored this article with Jigar Shah – Founder SunEdison & Generate Capital. We believe that their is a new retail competition underway in utility industry and if policy makers, regulators, utilities, and industry entrepreneurs take the right steps in a time bound manner, the value of retail competition can be unlocked this time around!Hope you will enjoy this perspective. We would like to hear from you…

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  • Creating Climate Wealth

    ICOSA

    Creating Climate Wealth is about driving $10 Trillion in investment dollars into deploying clean technologies. It is not about more research and development into clean technology. This book is not about new inventions to solve climate change issues, rather it is about the deployment of the existing inventions in energy supply (like solar), transportation, buildings, industry, forestry, waste, and agriculture.

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Projects

  • Reconsidering the Economics of Photovoltaic Power

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    The paper, Reconsidering the Economics of Photovoltaic Power, looks at the implications of the sharpest falls in the prices of PV technology in recent memory. Average PV module prices have fallen by nearly 75% in the past three years, to the point where solar power is now competitive with daytime retail power prices in a number of countries. It also examines the metrics generally used to measure the economics of solar power against alternative power generating technologies, and finds they are…

    The paper, Reconsidering the Economics of Photovoltaic Power, looks at the implications of the sharpest falls in the prices of PV technology in recent memory. Average PV module prices have fallen by nearly 75% in the past three years, to the point where solar power is now competitive with daytime retail power prices in a number of countries. It also examines the metrics generally used to measure the economics of solar power against alternative power generating technologies, and finds they are often inadequate, and may introduce bias against the deployment of PV technology.

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