Finance: New routes through the Valley of Death

Room LENNOX 1

The challenges of attracting private finance to fund the ‘Valley of Death’ are well known. But as markets, policy and technologies develop, new opportunities are emerging. This could be a local utility with an interest in a tidal energy PPA. It could be an institutional investor attracted by public guarantees. Or it could even be millions of dispersed citizens, empowered by the internet to fund projects that make a positive impact on the world.