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title: "Clean Energy Decisions can Fail in the Second-order Effects"
date: 2025-12-18
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That’s what I valued most in this conversation (see link below): systems thinking.
Not a single technology. Not a single policy.
But how legislation, supply chains, grid constraints, capital structures, risk transfer, and demand growth *interact*, sometimes constructively, sometimes frictionally.

The discussion on the One Big Beautiful Bill’s second-order effects on clean energy was especially useful:
⚠️ Shortened timelines
⚠️Margin compression
⚠️Supply-chain reshuffling

Clients don’t need another transaction wrapped in optimism.
They need a **partner** who will name trade-offs early, while there is still room to choose.

Clean energy doesn’t advance on slogans.
**It advances on judgment.**

**Link** to the Marsh FINPRO's Renewables today: Challenges, opportunities, and risk management to drive growth: https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/insights/powered-by-marsh-pod-renewable-energy-risk-insights.html

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