Episode 22: Jigar Shah, President and co-founder of Generate Capital
Jigar Shah, the President and co- founder of Generate Capital and co-host of the podcast “The Energy Gang” joined me on the hottakeoftheday podcast to talk all things energy. Jigar worked with BP, founded SunEdison in 2003, and has been at the forefront of renewables, energy policy and innovation since 1997. We talk wind. Solar. Nuclear power. Nuclear advocacy. Why rare earth minerals aren’t rare. Electricity prices in Germany and California. The future of oil and gas and the talent in oil and gas companies and answer – why is the fossil fuel industry in the US so unloved…. The answer both will but mostly won’t surprise you. I’m always excited about “the best episode ever” but this one is pretty worth the listen. 0:00 – 05:00 - Jigar Shah – Intro a background 05:00 – 09:00 - Alternative energy – Wind a Solar, Deployment-led innovation, Advanced Energy Economy 09:00 – 12:00 - BP a Alternatives strategy 12:00 – 17:00 - Levelized cost of energy, Subsidies 17:00 – 29:00 - Nuclear energy, Renewable collaboration with oil a gas 29:00 – 37:00 - Renewable examples – California a Germany, Batteries, Mining a Rare Earth Minerals, Oil a Gas Industry a Renewables 37:00 – 40:00 - US role a relationship with China Jigar Shah Bio: Jigar Shah is the president and co-founder of Generate. Prior to co-founding Generate, Jigar pioneered “no-money-down solar” as the founder and chief executive officer of SunEdison, which unlocked a multibillion-dollar solar market and made SunEdison the largest solar services company worldwide before its acquisition by MEMC. After SunEdison, Jigar served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global nonprofit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. Jigar is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy. His decades of business-model innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy prove that sustainability pays. Jigar holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
