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Temasek-EQT to Launch Renewable Energy Platform in India

Singapore’s Temasek is teaming up with Swedish private equity group EQT to launch a new renewable energy platform for India that will build wind and solar farms ground up and acquire assets to bulk up. The two sponsors have promised an initial equity commitment of USD 500 million as the seed capital.

 

On the back of that the company will be raising leverage two to three times to fund both greenfield and brownfield ground-mounted projects in wind and solar electricity. The focus will also be on presence across value chain and hybrids, battery storage and other frontier clean-energy initiatives. A formal announcement is expected in by December 2019.

 

The initial capital commitment is expected to help the platform scale up to three GW of capacity over the next five years. To begin with, the idea is to bid for large Central government auctions of NTPC and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

 

Warburg Pincus backed a management team to start CleanMax Solar to build rooftop solar projects for commercial and industrial customers. The Piramal Group and CPPIB of Canada too have recently started a new InVIT platform to acquire green energy projects.

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