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Jigar Shah

CEO, Carbon War Room
Jigar Shah is CEO of the Carbon War Room, a nonprofit that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to implement market-driven solutions to climate change and create a post-carbon economy.

By bringing project finance and growth capital together with infrastructure entrepreneurs, corporations, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), he identifies and eliminates market barriers; driving environmental improvements alongside economic growth.

Shah founded SunEdison in 2003 with a new business model: the solar power services agreement business (SPSA). The SPSA uses existing technologies and required no new legislative action. The SPSA model launched solar services into a multi-billion dollar industry.

Shah is an expert on energy project finance, changing energy policy, working with entrenched stakeholders, and convincing different type of customers to embrace energy technology.

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Forget Extending The Power Grid, The U.S. Should Act More Like A Developing Nation In places around the world where the grid hasn't been extended, they're still figuring out ways to power their gadgets. We could learn a thing or two. Updated Tue Oct 18, 2011
Why Governments Shouldn't Pick Commercial Winners We already have private sector businesses with solutions that are scaling rapidly. The scary thing is that governments do not know who they are, and therefore have no good way to coordinate with them. Updated Fri Sep 2, 2011
Governments Can Create Jobs And Returns By Investing In Groundbreaking Infrastructure From Roman aqueducts to Chinese rail, enormous infrastructure has the potential to transform a society. To fix these economic doldrums, the government should partner with the private sector to solve society's problems. Updated Thu Aug 18, 2011
It's Hard Out There For A Transportation Entrepreneur (But It Doesn't Have To Be) To really get innovation we need to look at electric batteries in cars as distributed sources of energy for the grid that just happen to be on four wheels. Updated Fri Aug 5, 2011
Can The Local Food Movement Scale Up? The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses. Without that, it's just a fad. Updated Thu Jul 21, 2011
Angry Birds And Our Continued Flailing Attempts At Energy Innovation It’s not that America has lost its ability to innovate. The problem is that the smartest entrepreneurs of our time are making iPhone apps instead of creating important businesses that drive growth and jobs. Updated Fri Jul 1, 2011
Updated Tue May 17, 2011
It's Time to Kill Permanent Energy Subsidies Removing subsidies for both dirty and clean energy would force everyone to compete on their own merits. Updated Thu May 5, 2011

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