With $1.2bn secured Terra-Gen prepares to break ground

With a unique, $1.2bn financing package in hand and a supply contract with Vestas, Terra-Gen Power plans to break ground on a 570MW expansion of its Alta Wind Energy Center near Tehachapi Pass in California next week.

The project developer, owned jointly by ArcLight Capital Partners and Global Infrastructure Partners, has gathered the necessary funds for the project – broken into four blocks known as Alta Projects 2-5 – through a complex, multi-tiered financing package.

It includes $580m in pass-through certificates – essentially pooled debt repackaged as shares – under securities rules that allow private securities sales to qualified institutional buyers without registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These are due in 2035.

These certificates, in addition to a bridge loan of $499m, will fund construction. There is also…

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