Securitization

New York-based DSD Renewables (DSD) has raised $155 million in debt financing for its first commercial and industrial (C&I) solar-asset-backed securitization (ABS).

SolaREIT, a Maryland-based solar real estate investment fund, has closed a $100 million securitization of solar leases with Nuveen.

Rayburn Electric County Coop, a Texas-based electric generation and transmission cooperative that suffered massive losses due to winter storm Uri last February, has closed a $908 million securitization.

PNM, the New Mexico utility subsidiary of PNM Resources, has filed a notice of appeal with the New Mexico Supreme Court after the utility’s application to divest its interest in the Four Corners coal-fired power plant was denied by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC).

Vivint Solar's former chief commercial officer and head of capital markets, Thomas Plagemann, has joined a Louisiana-based residential solar developer as its CFO.

Sunnova Energy has priced its fifth securitization backed by residential solar loans totaling $155.8 million.

Sunrun has increased the size and reduced the pricing of its non-recourse warehouse loan with a syndicate of eight financial institutions.

Sunrun has closed a residential solar lease securitization under the name Sunrun Demeter 2021-2.

The solar ABS sector is set to hit a new record for issuance volumes in 2021 with the addition of Sunrun and Solar Mosaic’s transactions, as a wider pool of institutional investors join the market, encouraged by more frequent ratings from the three major credit rating agencies.

Sunnova Energy International is preparing to launch its fourth securitization backed by residential solar loans.

MUFG has introduced a new CLO asset class, bundling $500 million of project finance and infrastructure loans together for Starwood Property Trust in a deal that clearly demonstrated investor appetite for the product.

Securitization exists in the public consciousness primarily as a shadowy corner of the capital markets in which out-of-control financial engineering causes global economic meltdowns. Could it be due a reappraisal?

Residential solar finance company Mosaic’s foray into the recently reopened asset-backed securitization market was well received by investors, reaping a multiple-times oversubscribed order book, in part thanks to data that shows the pandemic having a limited impact on solar loans.

One of the first pieces of advice a retail stock investor receives after opening their first brokerage account or downloading the Robinhood app is not to try to “time the market.” But in corporate finance – especially during weak markets – timing is everything. If a window of opportunity opens after a period of volatility, you go for it.

Solar finance company Sunnova priced the first solar securitization of 2020, a $313.5 million dual-tranche offering, on Feb. 5.

While yield-hungry investors of all stripes are viewing distributed, small-scale solar companies ever more favorably, the founders and management of the target companies are finding that there are attractive alternatives to selling stakes in their businesses outright.

Residential solar finance company Sunrun is preparing a $312.4 million securitization deal backed by a portfolio of leases and power purchase agreements, marking the first time the issuer has tapped the ABS market twice in one year.

Solar finance company Mill City completed a $217.89 million residential solar loan securitization on July 24, bringing year-to-date volume of solar ABS to over $1.3 billion.

Residential PACE provider Renew Financial has promoted Mary Kathryn Lynch, who has worked in finance and capital markets at the company for about three-and-a-half years, to the position of CFO.

Andy Redinger and Daniel Brown, managing directors at KeyBanc Capital Markets, discuss residential solar finance, including the latest trends in M&A and the future of the sector.