The Decisve Decade - Vol 1, 2026
- Shubhda Kaushik
- 3 days ago
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What will it take to win on bankability in the next phase of energy transition
A Practitioner's manual
The Decisive Decade is out today.
A practitioner’s manual on bankability in the next phase of the energy transition. A manual, not a polemic.
The previous decade of the transition was defined by ambition and the velocity of capital mobilisation. The expectation was that policy commitment, technological progress, and investment appetite would translate, with sufficient momentum, into delivery. Across capital-intensive green molecules and integrated infrastructure systems, that expectation has proven incomplete.
This book begins from a different premise.
The defining constraint in the next phase of the transition lies in the ability to structure projects in forms that satisfy the precise, legally enforceable, and technically grounded requirements of capital at the point of commitment.
Bankability, approached this way, is not a financing outcome. It is a design discipline.
The standard the book argues for is the standard to which the book itself was held.
The transition will ultimately be judged by what reaches financial close and gets built.
Across seven chapters, the book examines the four pillars that determine whether projects reach financial close: revenue certainty, infrastructure access, execution capability, and the allocation of risk. It traces the structural shifts reshaping capital flows, the migration of influence within complex energy systems, the emergence of corridors as the geography of execution, and the actors who will ultimately determine which projects are built.
I wrote this book because the transition has entered a phase in which execution is the binding constraint, and there was no working manual on the table. The analysis draws from fifteen years across project finance, strategy, and operating roles within the energy and infrastructure economy, and from sustained engagement with the three constituencies whose alignment determines whether projects move from concept to financed asset: investors, strategists, and developers.
The Decisive Decade: What will it take to win on bankability in the next phase of the energy transition
Also available on Amazon in the UK, Europe, US and worldwide
Published by Alternative Perspectives, the media, publishing, and intellectual arm of Alternative Energy Company.
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