Jigar Shah is a clean energy entrepreneur, investor and strategist with more than 25 years of experience in the energy sector. He currently co-hosts two podcasts — Energy Empire and Open Circuit — and serves as founding advisory chair for Deploy Action, a nonprofit that champions smart, equitable energy reforms focused on grid reliability and consumer affordability. He also co-founded Multiplier to help clean energy entrepreneurs achieve better exits, and serves as a part-time partner at Powerhouse Ventures.

Jigar most recently served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office (LPO) from 2021 to January 2025, where he oversaw a $400 billion loan authority — one of the largest infrastructure financing programs in the world. Under his leadership, the LPO more than tripled its staff and deployed $108 billion in debt financing for clean energy, advanced transportation and tribal energy projects across the country, spearheading the Biden Administration's efforts to commercialize emerging clean energy technologies at scale.

Prior to the LPO, Jigar co-founded and served as President of Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure company that pioneered low-cost infrastructure-as-a-service financing for decarbonization solutions. Before Generate Capital, he served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global nonprofit co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to harness entrepreneurship in addressing climate change. Earlier in his career, Jigar founded SunEdison in 2003, where he pioneered the "no money down" solar power purchase agreement model, unlocking a multi-billion-dollar solar market and building what became the largest solar services company in the world. He has also worked in strategy at BP Solar and as a contractor for the Department of Energy on alternative vehicles and fuel cell programs.

In 2024, TIME named Jigar in its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy (2013), which argues that market-driven business model innovation — more than new technology alone — is the key to attracting mainstream capital and achieving transformational climate outcomes.

Jigar holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Maryland. He was born in India and grew up in Sterling, Illinois.