The Money Go Round: Finance Is Backing Away From Transition

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The Money Go Round: Finance Is Backing Away From Transition

• A combination of rising rates and some small public companies in trouble is causing potential private financers of energy transition/sustainability to pause.
• Money is getting more expensive and is less interested in the riskier newer technologies that most agree are needed in some form for transition to succeed.
• Development capital is particularly hard to find, and companies that have managed new technology companies poorly are making it hard for the rest.
• 2023 is likely to be a year of shakeout rather than progress, with some further high-profile failures – if Virgin Orbit can fail, so can many transition stories.
• Otherwise, we look at a flood of chemicals, the necessary rise of CCS, the fall of lithium, some more silly politics, and what ChatGPT thinks of nuclear.

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