Robinson Meyer

How large a role do you think climate and the global effort to bring down greenhouse gas emissions plays in to the ongoing global deployment of these clean technologies? Like, are the clean technologies going to deploy kind of anyway because they're superior, as you were saying?

How large a role do you think climate and the global effort to bring down greenhouse gas emissions plays in to the ongoing global deployment of these clean technologies? Like, are the clean technologies going to deploy kind of anyway because they're superior, as you were saying?

Or is this something where people want to solve climate change and they want to develop and so they're going to uptake these green technologies?

Or is this something where people want to solve climate change and they want to develop and so they're going to uptake these green technologies?

I want to follow like three different threads there, but I think at this point, let's introduce people to what your job is. So you run the loan programs office at the Department of Energy. What does that office do?

I want to follow like three different threads there, but I think at this point, let's introduce people to what your job is. So you run the loan programs office at the Department of Energy. What does that office do?

The IRA expanded LPO's authority by 10 times from, I think, $40 billion before the IRA passed to now more than $400 billion. How has that changed the way you do your job? And also, how does LPO fit into the Biden administration's decarbonization policy writ large?

The IRA expanded LPO's authority by 10 times from, I think, $40 billion before the IRA passed to now more than $400 billion. How has that changed the way you do your job? And also, how does LPO fit into the Biden administration's decarbonization policy writ large?

What kind of companies are applying for loans from LPL? You mentioned that car companies have these giant factories that will eventually be profitable, but it takes a very long time for them to turn a profit. I think lots of manufacturing companies find themselves in that position.

What kind of companies are applying for loans from LPL? You mentioned that car companies have these giant factories that will eventually be profitable, but it takes a very long time for them to turn a profit. I think lots of manufacturing companies find themselves in that position.

But like what other companies, what other kinds of startups or long lasting industrial companies are applying to you for loans?

But like what other companies, what other kinds of startups or long lasting industrial companies are applying to you for loans?

You can talk about who has been approved for loans or who's gotten a conditional, yeah.

You can talk about who has been approved for loans or who's gotten a conditional, yeah.

And so that's mines and like industrial mineral refining facilities, in other words. Totally.

And so that's mines and like industrial mineral refining facilities, in other words. Totally.

Can you just lay out where you see LPO fitting into the bigger scheme of things in terms of the politics of Biden's agenda and where that intersects with private industry?

Can you just lay out where you see LPO fitting into the bigger scheme of things in terms of the politics of Biden's agenda and where that intersects with private industry?

Can we get more specific with this? Like, what can LPO do that others in the industry or others in the private sector cannot?

Can we get more specific with this? Like, what can LPO do that others in the industry or others in the private sector cannot?