INFORMATION ABOUT SPEAKERS

Jonathan Silver
Executive Director, Loan Programs Office
U.S. Department of Energy

Jonathan Silver was named Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office in November 2009.  Mr. Silver leads the Obama Administration’s $70 billion dollar investment program in alternative energy, financing a wide range of solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, fossil and nuclear energy projects.  He also heads the government’s $20 billion investment program in advanced automotive technology.  As Executive Director, Mr. Silver is responsible for the agency’s strategic direction and oversees all of its transactions.

Under Mr. Silver’s leadership, the Loan Programs Office has grown to become the largest project finance effort in the United States.  Since Mr. Silver took office, the agency has committed nearly $35 billion in 37 clean energy projects with total project costs of over $55 billion.   

Among the many transactions the Loan Programs Office has underwritten, the deal teams he leads have committed financing for the world’s largest wind farm; two of the of the world’s largest solar thermal power plants; the nation’s first nuclear power plant in three decades; several large geothermal projects; the country’s first commercial scale bio-refinery; significant transmission investments and three successful electric vehicle launches.