Financing Renewables with William from Helios

jE is joined by William from Helios, who are building DeFi infrastructure to allow investors to support direct renewable energy projects on top of existing commercial and industrial businesses. They have projects live across India, The Middle East and South America already, promoting decarbonization and electrification, whilst bringing real world assets on chain with a stable yield...

Important Note: Tariq Fancy is the former Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing at BlackRock, and has no affiliation with BlackStone. We would like to clarify that any reference made by William in the episode to BlackStone was unintentional, and we apologise for any potential confusion caused.

Topics covered include:
🎙 William's journey
🎙 Solar in emerging markets
🎙 The Helios user/investor expereience
🎙 How Helios works
🎙 The Helios roadmap
🎙 And a whole lot more, see below...

William, founder of Helios:
“People feel hopeless in the fight against climate change. Helios provides the power to make a real difference”
https://twitter.com/HeliosReFi
http://www.helios.eco

Mentioned:
Akiya DAO 
https://twitter.com/akiyadao
David Rodriguez
https://twitter.com/davidjrodriguez
Draft Ventures
https://draftvc.com/
Tariq Fancy
https://twitter.com/sosofancy
https://medium.com/@sosofancy/the-secret-diary-of-a-sustainable-investor-part-1-70b6987fa139
Gitcoin
https://gitcoin.co/
eth barcelona
https://ethbarcelona.com/
eth denver
https://www.ethdenver.com/
Block split
https://twitter.com/blocksplit

00:00 Intro
02:17 Akiya DAO 
05:07 William’s founder journey
11:20 Helios in a nut-shell
18:00 Where Helios fits in solar sector
20:40 Solar in Emerging Markets
22:56 The Helios user experience 
26:55 Investor Experience
29:00 The scale of opportunity
33:25 Where’s Helios at now?
35:55 What’s next?
38:26 Helios Collaborators
42:19 Helios Legal Structures
45:30 CTA

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