Ep8 Asia's macro hurdles faced by private equity, ft Fabian D'Avola

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Summary. The podcast focuses on the challenges faced by private equity firms when investing in clean energy projects in Asia. Asia Renewable energy expert Fabian D’Avola provides is insights on some of the key current issues as well as his outlook on the issues. In the first part, Fabian details his background in the clean energy industry as well as introducing Glennmont Partners and the firm’s strategy in Asia. He then spotlights some key issues, including clean energy projects’ land usage, grid capacity constraints, human capital availability and limitations, concerns surrounding offshore wind development, and also corporate power purchasing agreements. Finally, Fabian offers some insights on the outlook of these and other areas.
About Fabian. Fabian joined Glennmont Partners in 2021 as the Head of APAC. Prior to joining, Fabian worked at BayWa r.e. in Asia. where he led the expansion of the Project Development and Project Management activities in the region, including launching operations in South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, and expanding in Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Before BayWa r.e. he worked for Jinko Power in Asia where he started the Japanese team from scratch and acquired, implemented and sold the initial solar PV projects in the country, and for Canadian Solar International, where he started the Project business in Japan that resulted in a pipeline of more than 300MWp of solar PV projects under development in the initial 18 months. At Canadian Solar, he also launched the Global C&I business. Before moving to Asia, he was an Investment Banker in London with Merrill Lynch International and Macquarie Capital Europe in the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate business. Fabian holds an MBA from New York University, a MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London and a BS in engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Production and artwork: Joseph Jacobelli. Music: The Open Goldberg Variations, Kimiko Ishizaka. Feedback: [e-mail]

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Chapters

1. Ep8 Asia's macro hurdles faced by private equity, ft Fabian D'Avola (00:00:00)

2. 1. Fabian's background and firm strategy (00:02:00)

3. 2. Land usage, grid capacity, human capital and other challenges (00:13:00)

4. 3. Asia energy transition outlook (00:42:07)