“Shades of Green” Environmental Talk Radio, KOOP 91.7 FM (Private Sector Funding for Renewable Energy Projects)

Please join the "Shades of Green" crew this week as we speak about private sector funding of global renewable energy projects.

Our guest is Dana Younger, chief renewable energy specialist of the power & renewables team in the Global Infrastructure & Natural Resources Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). 

IFC financed more than $1.64 billion in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects during fiscal year 2010. This included wind projects in Mexico, China, and Turkey totaling >500 MW. Mr. Younger acts as lead business developer for large grid-connected renewable energy transactions with a special emphasis on wind energy and solar PV as well as run-of-river hydro, geothermal, solar thermal electric, and biomass power projects. He has helped mobilize financing for multiple wind projects totaling > 1,500 MW in various developing countries including China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland. He also helped IFC provide financing for >50 MW of solar PV projects in India, Thailand, and the Philippines as well as other types of renewable energy projects.

He recently authored an article on “Post-crisis Financing for Emerging Market Renewable Projects” in EUROMONEY’s International Power & Utilities Finance Review 2010/2011. He represented the President of the World Bank Group and IFC’s Executive Vice President on the G8 Renewable Energy Task Force (2000/2001). He is an acknowledged international expert on renewable energy who speaks frequently at international wind, solar, geothermal and renewable energy conferences.