Insights & News

Articles, podcasts,
and interviews

Precursor's thought leadership helped launch the FOAK market. Part of our mission is to open source best practices, lessons learned, and solutions for FOAK.

Coverage & Appearances

Featured listen

Catalyst — Shayle Kann

Financing First-of-A-Kind Climate Assets

Shayle Kann sits down with Precursor's David Yeh to discuss the unique challenges of financing first-of-a-kind climate infrastructure — from capital stacks to investor psychology.

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CTVC 4-part series

FOAK series with Sightline Climate

A four-part deep-dive published in CTVC

Part 1

Venture to Project Finance Duolingo

Part 2

The FOAK Checklist

Part 3

FOAK Financing: The Good, The Bad, and The Eligible

Part 4

From FOAK to NOAK

How to Win a Hyperscaler PPA — Learnings from the Decarb Connect Collab with Arbor Energy, Fervo, Daylight, Microsoft, PG&E, & Precursor

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OGGN Podcast

The Future of Energy: Geothermal and First-of-a-Kind Technologies

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Cyan Ventures

FOAK or Fail: Why Australia Must Back First-of-a-Kind Clean-Energy Projects — and How to Do It

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Occam Edge — White Paper

(Boring) Nuclear to the Rescue???

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Decarb Connect

FOAK 2.0 — What I learned in the last year since FOAK emerged as a concept

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CTVC

Meet the FOAK Folks (A Q&A with Precursor's David Yeh and Mark1's Julian Ryba-White, new strategic partners in the ecosystem)

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Latitude Media

These DOE alums want to help scale the next Tesla

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CTVC — Webinar

Line of Sight: To FOAK and beyond

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Wall Street Journal

It's Crunchtime for a New Generation of Climate Startups (paywall)

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Terra Alpha — Interview

Terra Alpha Voices — David Yeh

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Articles, podcasts,and interviews

FOAK series with Sightline Climate

Articles, podcasts,
and interviews