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Janice Tran from Kanin Energy

Janice Tran from Kanin Energy13 okt40 min

Waste heat is the most boring thing on an industrial site until someone turns it into clean baseload power and hands you the savings. Janice Tran, co-founder of Kanin Energy, joins Jason to break down how her team builds and finances waste heat to power projects, why their biggest competitor is a customer doing it themselves, the fresh $100 million raise, project finance capital stacks, and why heavy industrials with spare land are suddenly prime real estate for data centers.

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00:00 Intro

01:20 Meet Kanin Energy

02:27 Baseload power and project size

04:07 Why waste heat projects are hard

07:25 The real competition

09:06 Phillips 66 and Tallgrass projects