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 Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd   Thanks to our frens at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com