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Inside Lowercarbon’s apolitical approach to cleantech investing

Oct 13, 2026 · 45m

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Have feedback on Critical Capital? Fill out our listener survey to let us know what topics and guests you’d like to hear next! For decades, clean energy technology was framed as a moral imperative; a necessary strategy for saving the planet. Today, it’s just good business. Thanks to rapid breakthroughs in generation and storage, the unit economics of cleantech have reached price parity with — and in some cases even undercut — fossil alternatives. But despite the incentives, this shift away from fossil fuels continues to hit roadblocks. Broken project finance stacks, risk-averse underwriters, and political gridlock have all slowed down innovation and deployment. In this episode of Critical…