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Title: Don Carlson's Innovative Approach to Climate Tech Financing

Jamestown, Rhode Island, United States, 6th Mar 2024 - Some of the most innovative clean energy startups are dying. Not because of poor market fit or faulty technology, but because of limited access to credit. Investment capital exists at the research and pilot stages, but once these companies try to commercialize capital dries up. Seasoned energy investor, Don Carlson, calls this the “missing middle.”Most growth stage energy companies aren’t profitable & lack assets to use as collateral, so most banks and lenders won’t even consider lending to them. This makes it almost impossible for clean energy startups to commercialize their technology at a time when we need them to ramp up their efforts. The situation has gotten worse as venture capital investment has frozen up in the past 2 years.With his investing and legal background, Don Carlson proposes a solution to this problem. According to Carlson “as of January 1st of this year renewable energy investments & production are able to generate tax credits which can be transferred to other tax payers.” This means that suddenly energy startups are able to create tax credits which can be bought up by major companies like Apple or Pepsi. Climate tech companies can sell the credits directly to raise growth capital or boost their balance sheets, or the tax credits now and in the future can serve as collateral for project finance loans.Some entrepreneurs like Alfred Johnson, of Crux Climate, are working to create marketplaces where these tax credits can be easily bought and sold. The next step though is to make the same credits available to startups that displace high carbon activities – like Sublime Systems, led by the brilliant chemist Dr. Leah Ellis, who has pioneered low-carbon cement production.Forward thinking philant...

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