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Catalyst Capital's mission is to make small-scale energy projects bankable. We replace speculation with verified truth—rigorously validating the permits, resources, and teams that underpin renewable energy and critical mineral projects. Verified projects gain credibility for institutional capital. Buyers gain certainty through forward offtake contracts. Research is our moat. Trust is our product.

Upcoming Releases:

The Catalyst Outlook 2026

"The Year of the Bottleneck"

The energy transition is no longer a question of capital—it is a question of constraints. In our inaugural annual report, The Catalyst Outlook 2026, we dissect the critical chokepoints that will define winners and losers in the year ahead.

Looking beyond the headlines, this deep-dive analysis synthesizes NRC licensing timelines, HALEU fuel supply chain realities, and grid interconnection limits to reveal where the true alpha lies. We separate the vaporware from the viable, offering a clear-eyed forecast for Nuclear SMR deployment, Solar-Plus-Storage economics, and the Advanced Hydropower renaissance.

Release Date: April 2026
Format: Institutional Briefing (PDF)

Reserve your copy to receive the engineering truth before the market prices it in.

Catalyst Capital Research verifies small-scale renewable energy and critical mineral projects that institutional investors and offtakers struggle to evaluate. We combine multidisciplinary rigor—physics, materials science, finance, policy -with AI-accelerated diligence to make projects bankable. Then we connect them to buyers through forward offtake contracts.

Derrick Guardado | Chief Executive Officer

A multidisciplinary analyst at Pitzer College (Environmental Analysis, Economics, Data Science), Derrick directs the firm’s research strategy and investment theses. He synthesizes complex regulatory data and technical inputs into actionable, high-conviction narratives for institutional capital allocators.

Dylan Mong | Chief Financial Officer

An Economics and Psychology major at Pitzer College, Dylan leads the firm’s financial modeling and valuation work. He translates complex infrastructure and energy theses into rigorous cash flow models and pricing frameworks, ensuring our research separates sustainable returns from overhyped narratives.

Fernando Castaneda | Chief Operating Officer

A Political Studies major at Pitzer College, Fernando serves as the firm’s operational backbone and regulatory architect. He manages Catalyst’s research pipeline and daily execution while continuing to lead the regulatory intelligence division—tracking NRC licensing, FERC dockets, and policy shifts to ensure our strategic roadmap remains grounded in legal reality.

Andrew Janigian | Head Research Analyst

A Human Biology major at Pitzer College with a background in chemistry and medicine, Andrew directs the firm’s material science and environmental impact analysis. He bridges the gap between biological risk and industrial deployment, evaluating battery chemistries, fuel cycle toxicity, and health-based regulatory hurdles to uncover hidden liabilities in energy infrastructure projects.

Marlon Hernandez | Chief Technical Officer

A Physics major at Stanford University with a focus on reactor and grid systems, Marlon leads the firm’s core physics validation across nuclear, grid, and storage assets. He translates reactor neutronics, grid stability limits, and pumped‑storage thermodynamics into hard operating constraints for our models, ensuring every investment thesis is grounded in what energy systems can actually deliver in the real world.

Phillip Wong | Advancement Director

An Economics major at Stanford University with a focus on capital markets and venture formation, Phillip leads the firm's advancement, networking, and institutional outreach. He translates market positioning, investor relationships, and client development strategy into real deal flow for the firm, ensuring CCR's research reaches the family offices, funds, and investment professionals who can act on it.

Adamariz Escobedo | Research Analyst

A Biology major at UC Berkeley, Adamariz supports the firm's research by examining the environmental and biological dimensions of energy development, including ecosystem impacts, land use constraints, and the biological properties of materials used across energy technologies. She brings a natural science lens to our analysis, grounding investment theses in the ecological and biological realities that shape how energy projects perform and scale in the real world.

Mark Vasquez | Financial Analyst

An Economics major at Pitzer College, Mark supports the firm's research through financial modeling and quantitative analysis. He builds the project finance structures, incentive stacking models, and scenario frameworks that translate CCR's investment theses into hard numbers, ensuring every research conclusion is backed by rigorous, market-grounded analysis.