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Tina Francone

Policy / Government

Director, Grid Deployment Office at US Department of Energy

24

Deals Attributed

$103.69B

Deal Value

27.6

GW Capacity

2

Positions Held

Career Timeline

Director, Grid Deployment Office

US Department of Energy

Sep 2025Present

Senior Advisor, Grid Deployment Office

US Department of Energy

Jan 2020Sep 2025

Attributed Deals(24 deals)

Deals attributed based on Tina Francone's role at the firm during the transaction.

2026(2 deals)
Feb 2026Lender/ArrangerSouthern Company grid reliability program — 16 GW firm power including 5 GW new gas, 6 GW nuclear uprates/renewals, hydropower, BESS, 1300+ miles transmission in Georgia and AlabamaFinancingHybrid$26.50B16,000 MW
Apr 2026FinancierNatrium Kemmerer Unit 1 — 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with integrated molten-salt energy storage system (boostable to 500 MW peak), Kemmerer, Wyoming — first utility-scale advanced nuclear plant under construction in US historyOtherNuclear500 MW
2025(4 deals)
Jan 2025FinancierTransmission upgrades — ~5,000 miles of transmission lines across AEP service territoryFinancingOther$1.60B
Jan 2025FinancierTransmission upgrades across New Jersey service territoryFinancingOther$716M
Nov 2025FinancierCrane Clean Energy Center — 835 MW nuclear reactor restart, Pennsylvania (formerly Three Mile Island Unit 1)FinancingNuclear$1.00B835 MW
Jan 2025FinancierUp to 6 green hydrogen production and liquefaction facilities across the US (first project: Graham, Texas)FinancingHydrogen & Fuel Cells$1.66B
2024(17 deals)
Jul 2024FinancierViejas Microgrid — 15 MW solar PV + 38 MWh long-duration energy storage on Tribal lands near Alpine, CAFinancingHybrid$73M15 MW
Sep 2024FinancierPalisades Nuclear Plant restart — 800 MW nuclear generating station, Covert Township, MichiganFinancingNuclear$1.52B800 MW
Oct 2024FinancierProject Marahu — 200 MW solar PV + 285 MW/1,140 MWh BESS in Guayama and Salinas, Puerto RicoFinancingHybrid$861M200 MW
Oct 2024FinancierGrain Belt Express — 2,500 MW HVDC transmission line connecting Midwest gridsFinancingOther$4.90B2,500 MW
Nov 2024FinancierDTE Electric renewable generation and storage — solar, wind, battery installations across MichiganFinancingHybrid$7.17B3,000 MW
Nov 2024FinancierConsumers Energy grid modernization — solar, wind, battery storage, and virtual power plants across MichiganFinancingHybrid$5.23B2,000 MW
Nov 2024FinancierProject Polo — up to 1,000 distributed solar PV and battery energy storage systems across 27 statesFinancingHybrid$290M100 MW
Nov 2024FinancierProject Horizon — EV manufacturing facility, Stanton Springs North, GeorgiaFinancingOther$6.57B
Dec 2024FinancierProject AMAZE — Zinc-bromine battery manufacturing expansion, Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. Target 8 GWh/year capacity by 2027FinancingOther$304M
Dec 2024FinancierWEC Energy 1.7 GW renewable portfolio — utility-scale solar, wind, and energy storage across WisconsinFinancingHybrid$2.50B1,700 MW
Dec 2024FinancierProject Polaris — conditional commitment for hydropower, BESS, transmission, VPP across Northern & Central CaliforniaFinancingHybrid$15.00B
Dec 2024FinancierVertically integrated solar manufacturing facility — ingots, wafers, cells, and modules — Cartersville, Georgia. 3.3 GW annual capacityFinancingOther$1.45B
Mar 2024FinancierThacker Pass lithium processing plant (largest US lithium reserve, Nevada)FinancingOther$2.26B
May 2024FinancierUp to 6 green hydrogen production and liquefaction facilities — first project: Project Limestone (Graham, TX, 45 tpd liquid H2)FinancingHydrogen & Fuel Cells$1.66B
Oct 2024FinancierThacker Pass Phase 1 — 40,000 tpa lithium carbonate mining/processing facility, Humboldt County, NevadaFinancingOther$2.26B
Dec 2024FinancierBlueOval SK EV battery manufacturing — 120+ GWh/yr battery production capacity across 3 plants (BlueOval City TN + 2 Glendale KY plants)FinancingOther$9.63B
Dec 2024FinancierStarPlus Energy lithium-ion battery cell factories — ~67 GWh/yr battery cell capacity, Kokomo, IndianaFinancingOther$7.54B
2023(1 deal)
Sep 2023FinancierProject Hestia (residential solar loan expansion)FinancingSolar$3.00B
How deal attribution works: Deals are attributed to individuals based on their role at a firm during the transaction period. C-suite executives and senior partners/MDs are attributed deals where their firm was involved as a principal, counsel, advisor, or lender. This is an inference — not all attributed individuals necessarily worked directly on every deal.