What we finance
Grid-scale & commercial-and-industrial battery storage
Institutional energy-storage infrastructure
Financing the battery storage the grid now depends on.
Institutional capital for grid-scale and commercial battery energy storage — structured around the federal Investment Tax Credit and contracted, PPA-backed revenue, under a disciplined environmental mandate.
Grid-scale & C&I BESS
ITC §6418 structure
ESG-mandated
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How we structure it
ITC transfer under IRC §6418, with PPA-backed project finance
Where we invest
United States focus, with a broader international ESG mandate
Our filter
A mandatory ESG test on every single investment
Why storage, why now
The grid needs dispatchable storage — and the economics have arrived.
Battery storage has moved from an emerging technology to essential grid infrastructure, and federal policy has made it investable at institutional scale.
Grid operators and utilities are turning to batteries to firm intermittent generation, manage peak demand and hold the system stable. At the same time, standalone storage now earns the Investment Tax Credit in its own right, and that credit can be sold directly for cash — recycling a substantial share of invested capital in the first year and materially de-risking the position.
The market context
51 GWhU.S. storage installed in 2025
52%increase over 2024
+500 GWhforecast added, 2026–2031
15–25 yrtypical contracted PPA terms
Source: Wood Mackenzie / American Clean Power Association, U.S. Energy Storage Monitor.
Our approach
A different kind of storage investor.
Three deliberate design choices distinguish how we source, structure and protect each investment.
Vertical integration
Proprietary deal flow and real-time control of asset performance through an affiliated equipment and energy-management supplier — protecting the residual value on which returns depend.
Clean tax-credit transfer
We build around the direct sale of the Investment Tax Credit under IRC §6418 — replacing the traditional tax-equity partnership with a simple, bilateral cash transaction.
Contracted revenue
We favour long-dated, PPA-backed cash flows from investment-grade counterparties over merchant exposure — building a predictable, bankable revenue profile.
How the fund deploys capital
Four steps, four independent return streams.
1
Title & finance
The fund holds title to the asset through commissioning and the placed-in-service date.
2
Capture & transfer
It claims the Investment Tax Credit and sells it for cash to a corporate buyer under §6418.
3
Contracted income
The developer leases the system, paying an origination fee and escalating capacity income.
4
Flip & exit
After the recapture period, ownership flips to the developer and the fund realises its residual.
For project partners
You are building storage. We provide the capital.
Structured capital, command of the tax-credit mechanics, and execution certainty — from shovel-ready to operating.
See our financing criteria →For investors
Storage infrastructure where ESG meets returns.
For family offices, funds of funds and institutions seeking real-asset infrastructure with a genuine environmental mandate.
Request information →ESG & returns
The same discipline, not a trade-off.
Every megawatt-hour of dispatchable clean storage we finance displaces fossil-fuel peaking generation, reduces grid carbon intensity and strengthens energy resilience. The assets that decarbonise the grid are the assets that generate contracted, creditworthy cash flow.
A mandatory environmental, social and governance test is a structural requirement of our mandate — not a marketing overlay. Any investment that fails it is ineligible, regardless of its financial merits.
- Dispatchable clean capacity that firms the grid
- Measurable displacement of fossil peaking generation
- Contracted revenue from investment-grade counterparties
- An environmental filter embedded in the mandate itself
Insights
How we think about storage.
Tax & structure
How the standalone-storage ITC and §6418 transfer work
The two changes that made pure-play storage an investable asset class — in plain language.
Read → RiskWhy contracted revenue beats merchant exposure
What the discounts on listed storage funds reveal about revenue-model risk.
Read → MarketStorage as grid infrastructure, not a bet on prices
Why utilities and system operators now treat batteries as essential capacity.
Read →Let's talk.
Whether you are developing a storage project or exploring an allocation to energy-storage infrastructure, we would welcome the conversation.