Are Big Banks Botching One of the Greatest Cleantech Opportunities of All Time?

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🗓️ 31 October 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The largest international development banks have made it a priority to deliver energy to the 1.3 billion people without access to the modern grid. But are they approaching a 21st-century market with 20th-century solutions? In this week's show, the gang will discuss whether organizations like the World Bank are botching investment in energy access by ignoring the full potential of distributed energy and mobile infrastructure. The Sierra Club's Justin Guay will join the gang to chat about how to break old ways of thinking about energy access in the developing world. Then, we'll chat about changes on the grid one year after Superstorm Sandy, and explore the coming business model shift within one of Europe's largest utilities. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of October 31st, 2013, this is the Energy Gang Podcast from Green
0:09.5	Tech Media coming to you as usual from Washington DC. With me are my two co-hosts. Also in Washington is
0:26.5	Catherine Hamilton, Energy Policy Guru and founder of 38 North Solutions. And in San Francisco is Jiggershaw, Energy Futurist and author of the book
0:35.5	Creating Climate Wealth. I know that you can't see us but we wanted to celebrate the holiday,
0:41.0	Halloween anyway.
0:43.0	All of us are here in scary energy-themed costumes.
0:47.0	Catherine Hamilton, hello to you.
0:49.0	What did you dress up as today for the podcast?
0:52.0	Yeah, so I was going to go as Big Poppy, but I shaved because the series ended last night.
0:57.6	I got rid of the beard.
0:58.7	So instead, I'm going to go with Reddy Kilowatt, which was the mascot for the electric industry for about 60 years.
1:05.6	This is, since we're going to be talking about the developing world, I thought bringing back
1:09.2	ready kilowatt was going to be real good.
1:11.2	All right.
1:12.2	Jager, how about you?
1:13.0	What did you decide to dress up as?
1:15.1	I grew up my beard, wore a suit and I'm calling myself Al Gore, the Climate Millionaire.
1:22.4	Is that a disparaging remark or is that?
1:24.0	No, a positive one. I actually think he's done a great job investing in clean tech.
1:29.0	Neither of you dressed up in scary costumes, so I decided to go for something kind of frightening. I'm dressed up
1:35.8	like a TEPC co-worker cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear power disaster. I've got a hazmat suit,
1:41.2	the yellow hat, the booties, all of it. So here we are, you know, a
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