Infra Dig - A Green Street Podcast
Sep 24, 2026 · 32 min · 9 segments
The big question on so many infrastructure / energy professionals’ lips is… how is the global build-out of nuclear energy going to be financed? Everyone agrees that nuclear – from small modular…
Lola InfanteGuest
Angus Leslie MelvilleHost
So I, Lola Infante, I have over 20 years of experience in the clean energy space.
Uh, most of those years I spent working with utilities, uh, from the policy and stakeholder engagement angle for the most part.
Uh, and now, as you just said, I am senior program lead for economics and finance at the World Nuclear Association.
Uh, and in that role, what it really means is that I lead the strategic and analytical work behind our mission to strengthen, maybe not strengthen, rather convey, I should say, the nuclear's value proposition and advance and improve market design, financial frameworks, and all those enablers, uh, of, of, of deployment, nuclear deployment and financing at scale.
Uh, all that, of course, in support of our industry goal to triple capacity by 2050, and of course also working with very closely with our member companies and external stakeholders like financial institutions, private and public governments, and really anyone with a stake in or an interest in nuclear financing.
Part of that work, or I should say a very big part of that work, I should say, you know, over the past year has been to lead, um, our work on the World Nuclear Investment Guide, which we just, uh, released last week.
Uh, uh, it, it took a lot of people to come together to, to get it done, so it's really a collaboration with 30-some senior leaders from the nuclear and financial industries, again, all angles, to develop this, right? Uh, and it is an attempt to...
A bridge in the gap between both industries, nuclear and finance, uh, through tools and information that, uh, hopefully will help financial institutions approach nuclear projects in a little bit more confident way.
So I, Lola Infante, I have over 20 years of experience in the clean energy space.
Uh, most of those years I spent working with utilities, uh, from the policy and stakeholder engagement angle for the most part.
Uh, and now, as you just said, I am senior program lead for economics and finance at the World Nuclear Association.
Uh, and in that role, what it really means is that I lead the strategic and analytical work behind our mission to strengthen, maybe not strengthen, rather convey, I should say, the nuclear's value proposition and advance and improve market design, financial frameworks, and all those enablers, uh, of, of, of deployment, nuclear deployment and financing at scale.
Uh, all that, of course, in support of our industry goal to triple capacity by 2050, and of course also working with very closely with our member companies and external stakeholders like financial institutions, private and public governments, and really anyone with a stake in or an interest in nuclear financing.
Part of that work, or I should say a very big part of that work, I should say, you know, over the past year has been to lead, um, our work on the World Nuclear Investment Guide, which we just, uh, released last week.
Uh, uh, it, it took a lot of people to come together to, to get it done, so it's really a collaboration with 30-some senior leaders from the nuclear and financial industries, again, all angles, to develop this, right? Uh, and it is an attempt to...
A bridge in the gap between both industries, nuclear and finance, uh, through tools and information that, uh, hopefully will help financial institutions approach nuclear projects in a little bit more confident way.
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