DOE Loan Programs Office races to get cleantech money out as Trump looms

Published on December 5, 2024

When prominent entrepreneur Jigar Shah took over as head of the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office in 2021, he had one primary mission: To get “ dollars out the door. ” Now the office, which offers financing to clean energy technologies that struggle to borrow from banks and received a huge boost of money from…

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