# Alfred Johnson

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AI is disrupting services. What does that mean for power demand?

AI is still in the foothills of enterprise adoption, but the infrastructure buildout required to support it is already reshaping energy markets, capital allocation, and industrial policy. Data centers are driving demand for new generation and transmission, while billions of dollars flow into the ha…

Crux Co-Founder & CEO Alfred Johnson

For more than a decade, the federal government's biggest tool for accelerating clean energy hasn't been a grant or a loan. It's been the tax code. Tax credits have driven the buildout of wind, solar, and now a much wider range of technologies, like storage, nuclear, and advanced manufacturing. Bu…

What it takes to build in America again

American industry is building factories, mines, and grid hardware at a scale not attempted in decades, and the capital is there. But Erin Price-Wright says the cost of money no longer sets the return on an industrial project. It’s the time spent waiting on a regulator. In this episode, Alfred John…

What it costs to make power cheap

Home energy has spent most of a decade being sold as a premium product, priced at a margin homeowners would pay for something they wanted. Zach Dell says there’s a better way. He argues that electricity is a commodity, that the cheapest version is the best one, and that getting there means owning t…

Reprised | Clean Energy Meets Its Match: Crux Accelerates Deal Flow

There are trillions of dollars of clean energy projects ready to be built—and trillions more in capital waiting to fund them. But the system connecting the two is too slow, fragmented, and expensive. That gap is what Alfred Johnson set out to close. A former Treasury official who helped steer marke…

IT WILL ALL COME OUT IN THE WASH

Send us Fan Mail Inside of every one of us is a murderer. One day, when the world gets too much to bear, or the one we love just won’t take the hint and stop nagging – that’s when we snap; sometimes with disastrous consequences.  Welcome to the True Crime audio archives of Sunderland Antiquarian So…

Victorian Murders Where You Decide The Verdict

Send us Fan Mail We open this episode of Murderous Wearside true crime podcast with a hard question about what people are capable of when life becomes unbearable, then take you into our true crime archives where Victorian cases collide with real court verdicts. The final story leaves judgement in y…

Data centers gave nuclear its moment. Can it deliver?

The rush to build data centers has sparked an energy debate: will gas meet the growing demand or will clean firm power like nuclear step in? Nuclear has bipartisan support, new contracts from tech companies, and the capital to build. What it needs, according to Lara Pierpoint, is to be built on tim…

Senator Martin Heinrich unpacks his new permitting reform bill

If there’s one thing stakeholders in the energy sector can agree on, it’s that new infrastructure needs to get built faster and more reliably. A recent Crux study, for instance, found that federal permitting delays hamper clean energy projects for an average of six months; cancellations due to endl…

NPM Interconnections (US) – Episode 215: Alfred Johnson & James Wright | Crux

In this episode, Crux CEO Alfred Johnson and newly appointed Head of Industry Coverage and Advisory James Wright speak with Heerea Rikhraj to review Crux’s 2026 Midyear Report and the future of clean energy finance.  The discussion examines the rise of preferred equity and hybrid tax equity structu…