Behind the Bell: New Fortress Energy

In this episode of Behind the Bell, New Fortress Energy CEO Wes Edens shares how being Nasdaq-listed has fueled growth and enabled the company to bring cleaner and more affordable power to emerging markets around the world.

Transcript:

If you have a young company, and you're trying to make your place in the world, simply being listed on a major exchange like Nasdaq itself is a big step towards, you know, a positive future.

The mission of the company really is to bring cleaner and more affordable power to emerging markets around the world.

Our access to electricity is something we all take for granted. For much of the world, that's not the case.

And so, have had huge impacts in Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Mexico, soon to be Nicaragua, Brazil. So big markets where we can bring in our combination of gas and logistics and power and make a real difference in these places.

Simply being listed on an exchange gives you access to a much broader array of investors.

For a company like us, we've built seven and a half billion dollars worth of infrastructure in the last five or six years.

Without access to capital, we wouldn't have been able to do that.