Drawing on his experience deploying $30 billion in renewable energy loans during the Recovery Act, Owen makes the case for why government lending is essential to de-risking emerging technologies like small modular reactors until private markets are ready to step in.
He also pulls no punches on the state of federal lending infrastructure, drawing a direct parallel to where federal financial management was before the CFO Act of 1990, and arguing that data standardization, systems consolidation, and a common language across agencies are prerequisites before any real modernization can take hold.