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🗓️ 10 August 2021
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We're at a new phase of the clean energy transition. Extreme heat, drought and floods are increasing in frequency. Public attention on clean energy is stronger than ever. The Biden Administration is putting zero-carbon energy at the core of its policies.
And there's another powerful force: making sure the energy transition is as racially and economically just as possible.
Anton Cohen is a partner at CohnReznick LLP, and national director of the firm’s Renewable Energy Industry Practice. He's been advising companies across a wide range of industries: tech, manufacturing, public tax credits, and energy.
Today, he focuses exclusively on renewables: “All we do is renewables. Live, eat, sleep, breathe renewables.”
The large investors and energy users that Anton advises are feeling the urgency.
“I think it's the corporates who are pushing hard. People know what direction we're heading in. It's just a matter of how quickly we get there with the energy transition,” says Anton.
Amidst all of this change in the corporate world, we have an ongoing pandemic, a lumpy economic recovery, massive cybersecurity breaches, and an infrastructure bill under consideration that could transform the clean energy economy.
Anton is watching all of it. So we caught up with him for a take on how all these factors are influencing each other.
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0:00.0 | This is a custom episode from Post-Script Studios in Wood McKenzie. |
0:05.0 | Anton Cohen has been at Cone Resnick Capital for nearly 27 years. |
0:08.8 | He's been advising companies across a wide range of industries like tech, manufacturing, public tax credits, and energy. |
0:14.8 | And for those folks that know me, I get bored very easily. |
0:18.6 | My tension span doesn't last very long, so to be a one place for so long is pretty amazing for me. |
0:24.3 | The thing that's kept his attention the longest, clean energy. |
0:27.5 | More than a decade ago, Anton took on some clients in large scale wind and distributed solar. |
0:31.9 | It was an inflection point for the renewables business. |
0:34.4 | So he immersed himself deeper, eventually becoming national director of the firm's renewable energy industry practice. |
0:40.3 | I said to folks, look, if you want to be in the renewable energy industry, you got to be all in. |
0:43.9 | There's no dabbling. |
0:45.4 | We have about 100 folks on the accounting firm side. |
0:47.9 | All we do is renewables. |
0:49.1 | Live, eat, sleep, breathe, renewables. |
0:53.1 | Fast forward to 2021. |
0:55.7 | We're at another inflection point. |
0:57.2 | In this time, the curve is much steeper. |
0:59.7 | Extreme heat, droughts, and floods are increasing in frequency. |
1:02.7 | Public attention on clean energy is stronger than ever. |
1:05.5 | The Biden administration is putting zero carbon energy at the core of its policies. |
1:09.7 | And the corporations that Anton advises are feeling the urgency. |
1:13.3 | What I'm seeing now is the adoption by a lot of the big oil and gas majors, right? |
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