Type: High Impact Investments, Real Assets
Topic: Renewable Energy
Status: Current
In the photo above, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti celebrates a new solar array built by True Green Capital (“TGC”). This fund provides equity capital for building distributed energy infrastructure projects – power generated at the place where it’s used rather than drawn from the conventional grid. TGC focuses on commercial and industrial solar projects and its investments may also include battery and other synergistic technologies.
Investment
Fund III: $7.5 million; originated in 2017
Fund IV: $10 million; originated in 2022
Rationale
TGC’s most recent fund builds and operates projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their investments help industry participants save money on electricity, thus creating new business support for renewables. The fund’s impacts map directly onto McKnight’s Midwest Climate & Energy program goals to decarbonize the power sector.
Returns
No financial returns to report; fund is in capital deployment stage.
Lessons Learned
Too early to report
Photo Credits: True Green Capital
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Last updated 11/2017