Sector · Renewable Energy
Renewable energy investment: preparing projects and platforms for institutional capital
Renewable energy attracts more institutional capital than almost any other sector, and receives more unprepared approaches. We help developers, sponsors and platforms raising £10m and above present the evidence investors screen for, and reach the investors whose mandate fits.
How investors see it
Renewable Energy: where capital comes from, and what it needs.
Renewable energy capital is not one market. Core infrastructure funds buy contracted, operational or ready to build assets. Value add funds back consented projects and development portfolios. Growth investors fund the developers themselves. Family offices and strategic investors sit across all three. Each has a distinct appetite for development risk, technology, geography and ticket size.
The first decision in any renewable energy raise is therefore honest positioning: where the project or platform sits on that spectrum, and which investor category is built to fund that stage. The second is evidence, in the order investors weigh it.
Who we work with
- Developers with consented or late stage pipelines across solar, wind and storage
- Independent power producers seeking platform or portfolio equity
- Sponsors seeking construction equity or project finance for ready to build assets
- Owners of operational portfolios seeking refinancing or a partial sale
- Energy transition companies seeking growth capital
Investor criteria
What investors check before they invest
The Investor Readiness Review tests each of these against your materials before an investor does.
| What investors check | What they expect to see |
|---|---|
| Grid connection | A secured connection offer with capacity, a credible energisation date and an understanding of any queue reform or milestone requirements. |
| Land and consent | Documented site control and a planning status stated in one sentence: granted, submitted or pre application. |
| Revenue | A contracted route such as a Contract for Difference or power purchase agreement, or a merchant case built on independent price curves with downside sensitivities. |
| Financial model | Transparent assumptions on yield, capex, opex, degradation, capture prices and financing, with sources, scenarios and debt sizing. |
| Delivery | EPC and equipment supply strategy, pricing evidence and a team that has consented, built or operated comparable assets. |
| Structure | A clean holding structure, clear ownership of each project company and a capital structure that can be explained in one sentence. |
Capital providers
Who invests
Core and core plus infrastructure funds
Operational and ready to build assets with contracted revenues
Value add and development investors
Consented projects, development pipelines and platforms
Family offices
Direct stakes in projects and portfolios, often alongside a sponsor
Banks and institutional lenders
Project finance for construction and operational assets
Strategic investors
Utilities and energy majors acquiring pipelines and platforms
Growth equity
Developers, independent power producers and energy transition companies
Common issues
Where raises stall
Grid assumptions without documents
Connection dates and capacity stated in the deck but not evidenced in the data room.
Stage overstated
A project awaiting consent presented as ready to build, which costs credibility at first read.
Merchant optimism
Revenue cases built on a single price curve with no downside case.
Wrong investor category
Development stage projects put to core infrastructure funds that cannot take development risk.
FAQ
Renewable Energy: questions
Who invests in renewable energy projects?
When should a renewable energy developer seek institutional capital?
Does BriHel arrange project finance?
Find out what an investor will see before approaching the market.
The Investor Readiness Review is a fixed fee assessment of your opportunity, written from the investor side of the table. You receive a scored report, the issues most likely to stop an investor, and the order in which to address them.