SMP 302: Climate Week NYC: Financing Clean Energy, Powering AI & Building the Workforce

Benoy Thanjan shares his key takeaways from Climate Week NYC, focusing on what it takes to turn clean energy commitments into financed, built, and operating projects. He discusses early community and investor engagement, permitting and interconnection challenges, supply-chain traceability, cybersecurity, and how AI and data-center demand are driving interest in behind-the-meter generation, storage, and microgrids.

The episode then features an interview with Kristy Drutman at the Green Jobs Pavilion, bringing a workforce perspective to the clean energy conversation.