Project Finance

Bring long-term, innovative climate tech and infrastructure projects to life with a team of experts dedicated to crafting the right financing solutions that support positive environmental change.

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We support a broad spectrum of clients and innovation projects

Experience and industry knowledge across a wide range of sectors in the clean tech, climate tech and sustainability industry, including solar, wind, battery storage, fuel cell, utility storage and more.

$3.2B+

Commitments to date¹

62%

Of community solar financings to date led or participated in by SVB²

Years of experience supporting project finance deals in climate tech

Recent transactions

Trusted partner with a proven track record

$265,000,000

195 MW residential solar portfolio

$265M term loan and LC facilities, SVB as coordinating lead arranger, admin agent and hedge provider.

Sunrun Mars

$310,000,000

215 MW community solar portfolio

$301M term loan and LC facilities, SVB as coordinating lead arranger, administrative agent and collateral agent.

AES DE Holdings VII

$133,900,000

Financing a portfolio of 32.9MW fuel cell projects

$133.9M term loan and LC facility, SVB as sole coordinating lead arranger, sole book runner and admin agent.

RAD Energy Solutions

$131,900,000

Financing of 150MW utility scale solar located in AZ

$131.9M Term loan LC facility, SVB as coordinating lead arranger and admin agent.

Sun Stream II

$131,500,000

Financing of 109MW community solar portfolio

$131.5M construction-to-term loan and LC facility, SVB as sole coordinating lead arranger and admin agent.

Soltage Iris

$177,700,000

Acquisition of 288MW utility scale solar projects

$177.7M term loan and LC facility, SVB as mandated lead arranger and  hedge provider.

Boralex Portfolio Solar Acquisition

$290,000,000

166MW residential solar portfolio

$290M term loan and LC facilities, SVB as sole lead arranger, admin agent and hedge provider.

Galileo 3

$800,000,000

Warehouse financing of 13,000 residential solar and battery storage systems

$800M revolving loan facility, SVB as lender and hedge provider.

Sunrun Luna

Project financing innovators

SVB supports change-makers. While each may have different technologies, the one thing they have in common is creating solutions that influence positive change. Read their case studies to discover their unique innovations and how SVB has supported their growth.

SVB has been a trusted financial business partner. They understand the complexity of our industry, they come to the table with financial and risk management solutions to support large-scale, time-intensive projects and we look forward to working together on our upcoming deployments.

Ory Moussaieff

Co-founder | Daroga

The SVB Project Finance team has been an important financial partner and lead arranger for our large-scale energy initiatives. The team is very collaborative, has a wealth of knowledge in the industry and connections to get the funding needed for our next big project.

Paul Gaynor

CEO | Longroad Energy

SVB understands our business and the energy industry in which we operate and has been an important partner in Sunrun’s success.

Ed Fenster

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder | Sunrun

Championing leading-edge projects

Access intelligent, flexible financing structures that support the delivery of large projects and mitigate risk.

Construction financing

Structure, fund and monitor the construction of projects.

Tax-equity bridge loans

Bridge financing to the commitment of tax equity investments.

Back-leverage debt financing

Creative term loans leveraging the sponsors' cash flows from the project.

Loan syndications and agency

Top-rated syndications desk to help distribute products to partner banks.

Unitranche financing

Connect with SVB Capital to create hybrid loan structures for a project's capital stack combining senior and subordinated tranches into a single structure.

Aggregation facilities

Short-term warehousing of projects prior to long-term refinancing.