Sponsorship
California energy experience, focused on Phase 1.
Mojave Hydrogen Works is sponsored by its founders together with an experienced international project developer and the site's landowner.
Leadership
The sponsor team.
Policy and market access on one side, credit and capital structuring on the other: the two skills a first-of-its-kind project needs to reach financing.
Angelina Galiteva
One of California's most experienced clean-energy leaders, with decades at the center of the state's power markets, utilities and hydrogen policy. Angelina leads offtake, regulatory strategy and the project's relationships with California's hydrogen buyers and agencies.
- Led ARCHES, California's statewide renewable hydrogen hub, as Chief Executive Officer
- First woman to chair the Board of Governors of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which runs the state's power grid; reappointed by the Governor in 2023
- Former Executive Director of Strategic Planning at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and executive at the New York Power Authority
- Founder and Board Chair, Renewables 100 Policy Institute; Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy; renewable energy expert speaker for the U.S. State Department
- J.D. and LL.M. in international environmental and energy law
Jason Thompson
Jason brings the lender's view to the sponsor's chair. After more than 18 years underwriting and structuring credit for banks, private lenders and a state finance agency, he structures Mojave so it can be financed: staged capital, aligned partners and a clean path to project debt.
- Founder and Principal, PEAK Global Capital, advising developers and lenders on infrastructure, renewable energy and complex capital stacks
- Senior CPACE Underwriter at Forbright Bank, underwriting more than $70 million of financing for solar, efficiency and resiliency projects
- Director of Commercial Credit at Angel Oak Commercial Lending, where he built the credit process and closed more than $50 million in bridge and mezzanine financing
- Portfolio manager at the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority for 400+ loans, including tax-credit (LIHTC and New Markets) and HUD-insured transactions
- B.B.A., Ithaca College; Moody's Analytics credit analysis certification
Project partners
Established partners on the ground.
Partner names and agreements are shared with qualified parties under NDA.
International renewable energy developer
A developer with a multi-gigawatt renewable portfolio across Europe and the Americas, including gigawatt-scale green hydrogen projects. It leads permitting, engineering and development of Phase 1 and remains invested in the project through construction.
Landowner, Cadiz Ranch
An established California land and water company that owns Cadiz Ranch and provides the land and annual water supply that anchor the project, under an agreement with our development partner.
Why this group
Every hard part of the project has an owner.
Most early hydrogen projects stall on one of four things. Here, each is held by a party whose core business it is.
Buyers and regulators
Angelina's relationships across California's utilities, agencies, ports and hydrogen users.
Financeability
Jason's credit and structuring discipline, building the project to lenders' standards from day one.
Permits and engineering
A developer with a track record of taking large renewable and hydrogen projects through permitting.
Land and water
A landowner whose core business is the land and water the project depends on.
Governance
Built to institutional standards.
Mojave Hydrogen Works, Inc.
A U.S. corporation that holds the project, governed by a board of directors.
Independent oversight
We intend to add independent directors with industry expertise as the project moves toward financing.
Related-party discipline
Transactions involving sponsors are approved by disinterested directors and disclosed to investors and lenders.
Partner on Phase 1.
We are speaking with infrastructure investors, lenders, offtakers and strategic partners. Qualified parties can request the investor deck and data room under NDA.
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