Building a renewable energy infrastructure platform

Renova Capital is a Denver-based private investment partnership founded in 2007 to finance, develop, own and aggregate middle-market renewable energy infrastructure assets. We concentrate on projects or companies that generate clean, affordable and reliable biofuel and base load power. Specifically we are focused in several verticals including biomass-to-power, biomass-to-fuel, geothermal, district energy, MSW-to-energy and distributed solar (through our investment in Mainstreet Power).

In June 2011, Renova executed a joint venture agreement with Energy Capital Partners (ECP) to deploy $250 million of equity in renewable projects and companies. Established in 2005, ECP is a $7 billion private equity firm specializing in North American energy infrastructure with offices in Short Hills, NJ and San Diego, CA.

Acquiring assets and providing strategic growth capital

Renova, and our partners at Energy Capital Partners, look for investment opportunities to acquire platforms, well performing operating assets, or projects already in advanced stages of development. We seek to partner with proven management teams who have significant experience operating or developing renewable projects and who are in need of capital to expand or achieve economies of scale.

Making renewable energy development projects bankable

Renova partners with both best-in-class owners/operators of assets and developers to expand and scale their businesses. We seek to acquire and develop late-stage opportunities that have several critical elements in place:

  • Permits in hand, or clear path permitting and entitlements
  • Secure and reliable fuel feedstock
  • Commercially-proven technologies
  • Guaranteed price contracts for engineering, procurement and construction
  • Secure long-term off-take agreements with credit-worthy counter parties
  • Experienced development teams with a proven track record

Investing in several renewable energy sectors

Renova partners with both best-in-class owners/operators of assets to expand and scale their businesses. We seek to acquire existing assets with quality management teams, strong cashflows and long-term offtake contracts. Our goal, in partnership with ECP, is to provide the necessary strategic capital to companies or projects in our targeted verticals and build a diversfied renewable power platform.


Currently, our major areas of focus include:

  • Biomass to power
  • Biomass to next generation renewable fuels
  • District Energy systems
  • Geothermal
  • Municipal Solid Waste to power or renewable fuels
  • Distributed Solar (Through MainStreet Power)


Click here to learn more about our current efforts.