SightLive brings together the best of CTVC and Sightline, combining years of research, content, and community – for the first time, in-person at NYCW.
This full day event will drive the narrative on climate tech commercialization. SightLive highlights the marquee financing and offtakes across the climate capital stack in clean firm power, industrial heat, low-carbon materials and fuels, and more.
Join us in conversation with the trailblazers themselves. We hope to see you there!
This session will lay-out the components of building First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) projects, featuring real-world examples from geothermal, cement, steel, and sustainable aviation fuels. Hear from the FOAK trailblazers themselves on how they executed the Four Ps of the FOAK Checklist: de-risking technology at the Pilot stage, crafting a scalable Plan, securing financing and Partners, and assembling the right People. Panels will follow each company’s FOAK journey, offering insights into deal mechanics, decision-making processes, and building relationships with investors and offtakers.
Between the rise of data centers and the electrification of everything, baseload energy is hot these days. Fervo Energy has been one of the leaders in realizing geothermal’s untapped potential to bring 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy to market. Hear from CEO Tim Latimer on how Fervo secured its first offtake agreements, developed its FOAK project in Nevada in partnership with Google, and what they’re (horizontal) drilling into next.
More than 4 billion tons of cement are produced each year, with an 8% global emissions footprint to match. Enter Sublime Systems, which is taking a foundational approach to develop emissions-free cement using its electrochemical process. Earlier this year, Sublime announced concrete plans for its FOAK electrochemical cement manufacturing project and is now cementing its funding and partnerships to bring its product to market.
Steel has some tricky ratios working against its decarbonization favor, every ton of steel emits 1.85 tons of carbon dioxide. Stegra has been tackling this steel emissions math problem and recently announced a fresh €6.5bn equity and debt round to finance its 2.5Mt production capacity FOAK green steel plant in Boden, Sweden. Join Stegra and Just Climate as they iron out the journey from securing the first permit to breaking ground on the world’s largest green hydrogen steel plant.
Community engagement is a critical, yet often overlooked, component of early commercial climate project deployments. Local workforces, community organizations, and other place-based stakeholders can make or break long-term project success and true deployment at scale. Now, with community benefits and equity as requirements for accessing capital on the other side of the climate technology funding gap like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), it’s imperative for early commercial projects to learn to weave community engagement and climate equity into how they scale. Hear about strategies and lessons learned from real deployments that incorporated community early.
As climate tech enters its deployment phase, the layers of the Climate Capital Stack are evolving to meet the need. On top of venture capital, growth, credit, project finance, and government funds are building the funding bridge to help climate tech companies cross the Scale gap. This session provides an inside look at how financing rounds across the Climate Capital Stack got done, from the companies, investors, banks, and government funders themselves.
In February, thermal batteries manufacturer Antora Energy announced a $150m Series B led by Decarbonization Partners, a transition growth fund formed in partnership between BlackRock and Temasek. Since opening its landmark thermal battery manufacturing facility, Antora is charging up to supply zero-emissions heat and power to factories, bridging the gap between renewable energy and industrial manufacturing — and over the notorious Series B “Valley of Death.” Hear firsthand from the company and investor how this growth round came together and what’s next in Antora’s scaling journey.
After the announcement of its first 1.2GW gigafactory in Massachusetts opened earlier this year, electrolyzer manufacturer Electric Hydrogen secured a $100m corporate credit facility, led by HSBC to deliver even more gigawatts of electrolyzer plants. Get an inside look into why Electric Hydrogen charged ahead with credit financing, how the facility got wired together, and what banks like HSBC look for.
Crossing from FOAK to Nth-of-a-Kind (NOAK) often means transitioning from venture capital to project finance, a brave new world with different lingo and expectations. Investors like Breakthrough Catalyst are helping climate tech companies go from their FOAK to beyond, and Rondo Energy is a case-in-point: It received an €75m infusion from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the European Investment Bank in June to fire up three of Rondo’s thermal battery projects. Learn about how catalytic capital can help bridge the FOAK financing gap in this case study about Rondo.
One of the biggest players in the climate capital stack is the US Department of Energy. The department’s many offices offer diverse financing mechanisms, from grants to cost-shares to loans, for companies across the TRL and ARL (Adoption Readiness Level) spectrum. Learn about how the DOE’s different forms of funding fit into the broader R&D, Demonstration, and Deployment value chain with the Office of Technology Transitions, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, and Loan Programs Office.
Throughout the day, SightLive will host three closed-door workshop sessions alongside the main stage sessions. The workshops will provide spaces for attendees to engage directly with the topics of the day, and are designed to encourage the exchange of actionable ideas, collaboration, and problem-solving among peers. The topics will include:
1. Innovative Finance: Financing models to de-risk and scale climate tech
2. Policy Catalysts: Drafting an IRA 2.0 wishlist
3. Demand Drivers: Designing procurement structures for climate tech
Space for these sessions are limited and invite-only.
