
Blackrock Acquires Solar, Storage Portfolio from Excelsior
BlackRock‘s Evergreen Infrastructure Partners Fund has bought a portfolio of 38 solar energy and solar plus storage projects from Excelsior Energy Capital, a renewable energy investor.
Excelsior divested its entire stake as part of the transaction.
The sale to BlackRock is Minneapolis, MN-based Excelsior’s first exit from its maiden fund, Excelsior Renewable Energy Investment Fund I LP. The fund, which was launched seven years ago and attracted capital commitments above its $500 million target, has invested in solar, wind, and battery storage projects across 10 states.
The project portfolio consists entirely of operational solar and battery storage distributed generation projects with a total nameplate capacity of 89 MWDC, which formed a sub-portfolio within Excelsior’s Fund I.
“We believe this diversified portfolio of long-term contracted commercial and industrial solar and storage projects represents an attractive platform investment for the core, open-ended Evergreen fund,” said James Berner, Managing Director and head of the Americas for BlackRock’s Evergreen Infrastructure Partners Fund.