In this episode of The Price of Everything, we're returning to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The SAF landscape is very fresh and emerging as a real focal point in the energy transition space, so there are various ways to look at the SAF market.
Our guest for this episode is going to help us view SAF from a project finance side. John May, Managing Director at Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc. is known as perhaps known as the world's leading project financier for SAF project development.
John gives us some fantastic insight into the role investment banking plays in SAF markets, how "hot" SAF is right now globally, the costs associated with commercial scale, and much more.
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About Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc.
Throughout the past 30 years,
Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc. have assisted public and private companies that are overlooked by large Wall Street firms and by regional investment banking firms that had merged into larger financial institutions.
Typically, their financing transactions are sourced from institutional private equity, venture capital or strategic corporate investors who were looking to extend their R&D and project activities by investing in promising new projects or technologies.
They also assist private companies in selling their business, as well as helping large companies divest of non-core operations, and they advise on shareholder value enhancement engagements.
Based on the prior banking and investment banking experience of their Managing Directors, they have been sought out by companies that want Wall Street experience but without the cost, complexity, or attitude of a Wall Street investment banking engagement.
What is The Price Of Everything?
Welcome to The Price of Everything, a podcast that aims to shine a light on pricing. The cost of commodities – energy, food, etc. – play such an important role in our lives: accounting for around $5trillion worth of worldwide trade. But how are those prices actually calculated? Why do they move up and down so much? And what’s next?
The Price of Everything is the first podcast dedicated purely to how pricing works. Introduced by Neil Bradford, Founder & CEO of General Index (GX), and hosted by David Elward, Senior Pricing Analyst at GX, The Price of Everything takes listeners through how the world’s commodities are priced and what the future looks like for them in the age of climate change and the energy transition.
In this second series, we’re exploring the new markets coming to prominence, and how commoditisation in those sectors – hydrogen, voluntary carbon, sustainable aviation fuel and others – is often elusive; pricing and standards far less well defined; and value derived by their capacity to help combat climate change.