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Venture Capital & Public-Private Partnerships
Scaling innovation; government co-investment in transition projects.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
Beyond conventional and performance-based finance, energy projects can tap venture capital for innovation and public-private partnerships for large-scale infrastructure. These models fund the projects that are too novel, too large, or too strategic for ordinary financing.
In this lesson
- 01Funding innovation: venture capital
- 02The cleantech investment wave
- 03Public-private partnerships
- 04Why PPPs matter for energy
- 05Government co-investment and support
- 06Scale and strategic projects
- 07Sources and further reading