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Sunnova Energy has secured a $244 million securitization for its Hestia I solar project, which includes the development of 587MW of distributed generation energy resources (DERs) and associated software in Puerto Rico.
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Sunnova Energy Corporation intends to offer a $400 million green bond to finance or refinance existing and new projects.
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Sunrun, a provider of residential solar, storage and energy services, has priced a $715 million securitization of leases and power purchase agreements, known as Sunrun’s solar-as-a-service offering.
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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).
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SolaREIT, a Maryland-based solar real estate investment fund, has closed a $100 million securitization of solar leases with Nuveen.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Sunnova Energy has priced its fifth securitization backed by residential solar loans totaling $155.8 million.
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Sunrun has increased the size and reduced the pricing of its non-recourse warehouse loan with a syndicate of eight financial institutions.
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Sunrun has closed a residential solar lease securitization under the name Sunrun Demeter 2021-2.
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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.
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Sunnova Energy International is preparing to launch its fourth securitization backed by residential solar loans.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Solar finance company Sunnova priced the first solar securitization of 2020, a $313.5 million dual-tranche offering, on Feb. 5.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sunrun is preparing to refinance an 88 MW portfolio of "seasoned" residential solar assets with its latest securitization, a $204 million deal backed by leases and power purchase agreements.
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A former global co-head of infrastructure and energy structured credit at Deutsche Bank is starting the New Year with a job at a distressed credit investor.
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Residential solar developer Sunrun priced its second ever securitization on Dec. 12, Sunrun 2018-1, a $378.5 million offering backed by leases and power purchase agreements tied to rooftop solar systems.
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A trio of solar securitizations is progressing through the pipeline this week, giving investors a chance to get their hands on nearly $1 billion of bonds tied to residential solar assets.
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A deal from solar finance company Sunnova that was priced at the end of last week and a first-time residential solar securitization from Hannon Armstrong, announced on Monday, are rekindling the market for solar ABS in the fourth quarter.
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Residential rooftop solar developer Sunnova is in the market this week with its second securitization, a $262.7 million offering backed by a pool of leases and power purchase agreements.
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Tesla has hired a capital markets professional who previously worked in project finance at a solar developer in California.
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Brad Nordholm is leaving Starwood Energy Group Global, the private equity business he used to run as ceo, to take up the position of chief executive at the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp., also known as Farmer Mac.
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Just as one robin (or, depending on your geographic location, swallow) doesn’t make a spring, two project finance CLOs (PF CLOs)—Bayfront Infrastructure and RIN—may not confidently mark the re-emergence of PF CLOs. They are, nevertheless, a positive and potentially significant development, writes Paul Forrester, Chicago-based partner at Mayer Brown.
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Residential solar developer Sunrun will launch a securitization backed by leases and power purchase agreements within the next month, say deal watchers.
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Mosaic and Goldman Sachs priced a co-sponsored solar loan securitization on Monday, a $317.52 million deal dubbed Mosaic Solar Loan Trust 2018-2-GS.
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Goldman Sachs and residential solar finance firm Mosaic are preparing to jointly issue a new solar loan securitization.
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Credit Suisse was sole arranger on a privately placed solar securitization that Vivint issued alongside its public market debut last week.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Solar finance company Mosaic is preparing to issue its first securitization of 2018.
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Tesla priced the latest securitization from its SolarCity subsidiary on Friday, pushing total solar asset-backed securitization volume beyond $1.5 billion in 2017 as secondary market activity gradually builds.
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Investors are eager for a slice of Tesla’s latest solar asset-backed securitization from its SolarCity subsidiary, say industry sources, but solar ABS volume could remain limited in 2018 unless the challenge of securitizing commercial and industrial-scale solar assets can be cracked.
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