Energy Capital Partners

Insights

Mar 11, 2024

BoxPower, a leading provider of microgrids, is pleased to announce the successful closing of a credit facility in collaboration with VerisFi Capital and ECP ForeStar, the sustainable lending platform of Energy Capital Partners (ECP). This strategic financial arrangement will empower BoxPower to accelerate the expansion of its remote microgrid portfolio, furthering the company's commitment to providing safe, reliable, and affordable clean energy solutions.

Feb 22, 2024

Commercial production at Braya’s refinery operations in Come By Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, establishes Braya as one of the largest independently owned renewable fuel producers inthe world.

Jan 09, 2024

Energy Capital Partners (“ECP") today announced that it has acquired Triple Oak Power ("Triple Oak") from EnCap Energy Transition Fund I (“EnCap") and its co-investors, Yorktown Partners and Mercuria Energy.

Dec 14, 2023

Calpine’s Baytown Decarbonization Project will capture approximately two million metric tons of carbon dioxide for permanent sequestration each year, while Calpine’s Sutter Decarbonization Project will capture up to 1.75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide for permanent sequestration each year, helping California accomplish its net zero emissions targets.

Nov 06, 2023

Harvestone Low Carbon Partners ("HLCP"), a portfolio company of Energy Capital Partners ("ECP"), announced it has commenced carbon dioxide (CO2) injection as a part of its Blue Flint Ethanol carbon capture and storage (CCS) project facility near Underwood, North Dakota.

Nov 02, 2023

ECP portfolio company Heartland Generation, an independent power generation company with critical infrastructure assets located in Alberta and British Columbia, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 100% of its ownership interests to strategic acquirer TransAlta Corporation. Heartland owns a complementary portfolio of 10 natural gas power generation assets, with a combined 2,680 megawatts (MW) of gross capacity.

Oct 25, 2023

ECP is pleased to announce its preferred investment in Shenandoah Telecommunications, a $1.3 billion enterprise value broadband infrastructure company. Shentel is a century-old telecommunications infrastructure company, serving residential and commercial customers in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. through its established cable and cellular tower footprint and a quickly expanding fiber network. ECP’s capital will be used for the acquisition of Horizon Telecommunications, a leading commercial fiber platform with a growing Fiber-to-the-Home business in the Midwest.

Sep 06, 2023

Combined platform will strengthen position as one of the world’s leading private asset growth investors focussed on the middle-market, spanning private equity, infrastructure and credit with offices across Europe, North America and Asia. Exceptional ECP leadership and investment team to continue running the ECP business, investing its funds independently under its current brand and delivering strong returns for the enlarged group by continuing the strategy responsible for ECP’s track record to date.

Jun 07, 2023

Jennifer Powers and Reiner Boehning to lead combined ECP credit team with over $2.5 billion of initial capital allocations to offer credit solutions across the decarbonization and sustainability sectors

May 31, 2023

The Government of Canada is helping businesses and workers across thecountry seize the economic opportunities associated with the global drive forclean growth — delivering good, middle-class jobs, strong local economies andclean air for generations to come.

May 01, 2023

Away from traditional renewables, the energy transition presents a broad spectrum of opportunities for investors, explain Energy Capital Partner's Schuyler Coppedge, Matt Delaney and Emily Zovko.

Apr 20, 2023

Braya Renewable Fuels ("Braya"), a Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada-based producer of low-emission renewable fuels, today announced a $300 million preferred equity investment from Energy Capital Partners ("ECP"), a leading energy transition focused investor in the electricity, clean energy, renewable and sustainable infrastructure sectors.

Feb 01, 2023

Preqin announced their 2023 League Tables honorees today, including Energy Capital Partners (ECP) on their list of Top Performing Infrastructure Funds by Net IRR (Vintages 2014-2019) for ECP IV.

Jan 27, 2023

Energy Capital Partners (ECP), a leading energy transition-focused investor with a nearly two-decades-long track record of investments in the electricity, clean energy, renewable and sustainable solutions sectors, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Biffa plc ("Biffa" or "the Company"), the UK's leading integrated waste and recycling firm, in a ~ £2.1 billion enterprise value transaction.

Nov 02, 2022

ECP, a leading energy transition-focused investor with a nearly two-decades-long track record of successful investments in the electricity, clean energy, renewable and sustainable solutions sectors, today announced that Kristine Rea has joined the firm as Chief Talent Officer. In this role, she will lead talent and leadership development internally at ECP, while also supporting the leading executive teams ECP partners with across its portfolio.

Oct 21, 2022

Ørsted closed a transaction with Energy Capital Partners (ECP), a leading energy transition-focused investor, to divest a 50 % ownership stake in a portfolio consisting of three onshore wind farms and one solar farm in the US. The value of the transaction is approx. USD 410 million.

Sep 27, 2022

On September 27, 2022, ECP announced its intention to take-private Biffa, a leader in the UK's sustainable waste management industry and a key enabler of the UK's circular economy. The Biffa Group operates across the breadth of the waste management process, including surplus redistribution, recycling, treatment, energy generation, collection and disposal.

Sep 12, 2022

ARKO continues to work to create value for stockholders and execute its growth strategy, entering into an agreement for the accretive acquisition of approximately 350 wholesale and retail sites, including 150 company-operated convenience stores with growth pipeline; upon closing, the acquisition would expand ARKO’s convenience store footprint into Alabama and Mississippi and is expected to increase total fuel gallons by approximately 285 million predominately branded gallons.

Aug 16, 2022

National renewable energy provider, Pivot Energy, is pleased to announce the acquisition of SGC Power, a Maryland-based community solar developer. Pivot develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages distributed energy projects and is owned by leading energy transition investor, ECP. SGC Power has been involved in 2.8 gigawatts of solar projects since the company’s founding in 2008.

Jul 28, 2022

SAN DIEGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Borrego, a leading developer, EPC and O&M provider for large-scale solar and energy storage projects throughout the United States, today announced it has completed the spin off and sale of its development business to ECP. The new company will be named New Leaf Energy and will be operated as an independent business by ECP, a leading energy transition-focused investor with an almost two decades-long reputation in the electricity, renewable and sustainable solutions sector. New Leaf Energy will be led by the current development leadership team as they continue to execute on their long-term business strategy in partnership with ECP.

Jul 13, 2022

EDMONTON, AB – The Government of Alberta is investing over $40 million through Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) in 11 projects focused on advancing the province’s global leadership in carbon capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS). If successful, these projects could lead to over $20 billion in capital expenditures, create thousands of jobs, and reduce about 24 million tonnes of emissions annually—this is the equivalent of reducing Alberta’s annual industrial emissions by almost 10 per cent.

Jul 07, 2022

Metrus Energy (“Metrus” or the “Company”), an Energy as a Service (EaaS) and building efficiency market leader, today announced that it has been acquired by ECP, a leading energy transition-focused investor with an almost two decades-long track record of successful investments in the electricity, clean energy, renewable and sustainable solutions sectors. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Jun 28, 2022

Equinor and SSE Thermal are stepping up ambitions to contribute to decarbonisation in the UK. The companies are buying power company Triton Power from Energy Capital Partners (ECP), an energy-transition infrastructure investor, and are starting preparations to use hydrogen in the Saltend Power Station.

Jun 23, 2022

ECP today announced the successful completion of a continuation fund with $1.6 billion in capital commitments, and that the continuation fund has subsequently signed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a portion of Calpine Corporation ("Calpine"), America's premier privately held competitive power company, from ECP III and ECP IV, along with Consortium investors. The fund is supported by new and returning limited partners, and is anchored by Pantheon and existing consortium investor Phoenix Insurance. The continuation fund provides ECP III and IV investors, as well as the consortium of investment partners, the opportunity to monetize a minority stake in their investment in Calpine while enabling new investors to invest in the company through the continuation fund. ECP's direct ownership stake in Calpine will increase as a result of this transaction.