Spruce Financing Shuts $124 Mn Residential Solar Funding Plan

• Spruce Finance has actually shut a USD 124 million financial debt funding bargain for its profile of property solar PPAs as well as leases with Vantage and also Sequoia

Spruce Finance, among the biggest exclusive proprietor and also driver of dispersed generation household and also solar power properties in the United States, has actually shut a USD 124 million financial debt funding bargain for its profile of household solar energy acquisition contracts (PPAs) and also rents with Vantage Infrastructure as well as Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI).

The funds will certainly supply a substantial resources increase to Spruce's M&An and also natural development goals, along with settle an existing financing on its solar roof properties. On top of that, the funds will certainly be bought company efforts to offer improved client service as well as experiences for the 10s of countless solar home owners under contract with Energy Services Experts (ESE), Spruce's consumer as well as property maintenance subsidiary.

" To increase USD 124 million in the red funding in the midst of the COVID-19 situation is not just an exceptional ballot of self-confidence in Spruce from Vantage Infrastructure as well as Sequoia Investment Management however additionally an affirmation of dispersed solar as a popular possession course by the funding markets generally," claimed Christian Fong, CEO of Spruce Finance. "The advantages of this brand-new resources mixture will certainly be seen virtually right away, as we pursue getting added solar profile procurements in the future, as well as even more scale up customer support."

" Distributed power facilities financial investment is just raising, in our sight," stated Dolf Kohnhorst, Director of Sequoia Investment Management, the financial investment consultant to SEQI. "Well-managed domestic power is a core part of the 21st century's tidy power framework and also grid improvement. We delight in to be substantially sustaining the development of Spruce as part of this procedure."

In January, we had actually reported that Spruce Finance had actually finished its most substantial solar profile purchase to day, with its acquisition of 5,864 roof solar properties completing 31.3 megawatts (MW) from funds taken care of by Atalaya Capital Management.

In May 2019, the company had actually revealed the effective closing of a USD 208 million elderly protected fundings of its property solar possessions. The financial obligation funding provided Spruce accessibility to competitively valued resources, boost its resources framework and also assist the firm expand in brand-new solar markets.

In November 2018, Spruce had actually revealed that it was being gotten by HPS Investment Partners, a leading international investment company with greater than USD 48 billion of possessions under administration.