Harry Moser is the founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps U.S. companies evaluate the total cost of offshoring versus reshoring manufacturing. He is a frequent speaker and podcast guest on U.S. manufacturing policy and workforce issues.
Terminology used in FOAK financing by different stakeholders adds confusion and makes it difficult to recognize when essential milestones are met
Financing First-, Second-, and Third-of-a-Kind Projects involves collaboration between groups that use different terminology to describe the maturity and relative risk
Making large molecules selectively is difficult
Making methane selectively is chemically easy, but making anything larger can become quite a technical challenge
Lack of offtake agreements for e-fuels
Lack of offtake agreements for green hydrogen/green methanol/green ammonia is a challenge for project financing for a lot of e-fuels projects