Enlight Renewable Energy has closed financing for the energy storage portion of its Atrisco Solar and Energy Storage project, located outside Albuquerque, N.M.
Financing for the solar portion of the project closed last December.
The project, spread across 1,700 acres, contains 364 MW of solar generation capacity and 1.2 GWh of battery storage. Costing $827 million to build, it is set to be financed by $290 million of term debt and $420 million of tax equity, with Enlight’s long-term equity investment amounting to $117 million.
As part of the close, Enlight through its subsidiary, Clenera Holdings, entered into a loan agreement with a consortium of eight banks led by HSBC, totaling $401 million to finance project construction. The loan will convert into a $185 million term loan from the same group of lenders and tax equity financing of $222 million provided by U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance upon the project’s COD.
The term loan is structured with a 20-year underlying amortization profile with a five-year mini perm, and is subject to an all-in interest rate.
Tax equity was provided by Bank of America. The project’s tax equity financing qualified for the Energy Community IRA adder due to a brownfield addition to the project.
Project construction was led by RES, and the battery energy storage system provided by Tesla. Atrisco has signed a 20-year busbar PPA agreement with Public Service Company of New Mexico covering both electricity production and energy storage.
“The Atrisco complex is Enlight’s flagship project in the United States, and today’s financial close is another important step in the completion of this project,” says Gilad Yavetz, CEO of Enlight.
“We look forward to the phased COD of Atrisco, expected to begin during this quarter, in which years of effort will finally come to fruition. Enlight is embarking on an ambitious and rapid growth plan in the U.S., which is set to become a major market for us in the coming years, complementing the large and growing capacity footprint we have built up in MENA and Europe. Atrisco represents another step of this major expansion.”
The project is currently in the commissioning phase leading up to partial COD, and is expected to reach full COD later this year.
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To the reader who sent me this meme:
I wouldn’t say that Trump’s illegal invasion of Iran was done for “no … reason.”
What he did created world chaos and caused most Americans in particular to suffer. The more desperate we become, the more likely we’ll be to accept his repeated claims that “Only I can fix it.”
Chaos also helps to justify a claim of a “national emergency” that Trump could use to cancel the 2026 midterms. If November happens as everyone predicts, this will the end of his political and legal future.
Destroying renewable energy to further enrich his Big Oil megadonors makes Trump that much more powerful.
We’re in a pathetic position.
I’m not one to say, “I told you so,” but since my adolescence, I predicted that big money in government would soon ruin this country.
It’s hard to imagine that too many Trump supporters go to Canada for any reason.
Our neighbor to the north, once a close U.S. ally, now hates our guts–a tough feat to achieve indeed, considering the Canadians are such amiable people.
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