Mercatus Expands into Wind & Other Distributed Energy Asset Classes

Recognizing a broad market need, Mercatus expands its platform into Wind and other Distributed Energy asset classes. With this major enhancement we help leading energy producers and investors gain a competitive advantage and grow their business faster by accelerating the deployment of capital into a variety of technologies and distributed energy resources.

In the last few weeks we have seen strategic shifts in the energy sector where solar companies are diversifying their holdings and utilites are reorganizing around renewable and distributed generation technologies. On November 17th, SunEdison and it’s subsidiary Yieldco, TerraForm Power, announced plans to expand into wind energy with a $2.4 billion acquisition of First Wind, surprising the stock market and boosting Sun Edison’s share value by 30%.

On November 20th, Solar City announced a string of new energy storage instillations to compliment the solar power provided to the retail powerhouse, WalMart.  

These changes emphasize that diversifying helps an energy producer address the complete needs of energy consumers. Sun Edison CEO, Ahmad Chatila, told the New York Times, “We feel that electrons are electrons –solar or wind really doesn’t matter for our customers. Our customers are demanding that we have a more comprehensive solution”. Fundamentally, even solar companies are really energy companies and they will continue to lookfor competitive solutions that address the complete energy needs of their customers.

Providing more inclusive energy solutions in a transforming industry drives opportunities for growth. While historically solar focused companies are expanding their investments, traditional utility companies are also moving into renewable energy and distributed generation technologies in full force.

In August, NRG articulated a strategic reorganization to bring a diversity of renewable energy technologies to the forefront of their business by forming NRG Renew and NRG Home.  NRG CEO David Crane highlighted that the move “will enable NRG to take full advantage of, and realize enhanced value from, the burgeoning growth opportunities that we see arising out of the clean-energy sector.”  

Failure to expand into renewable distributed energy sources for utility companies can be perilous. In European energy markets that have undergone drastic energy transformation ahead of the US, utility companies that were slow to move often struggled to retain market share and profitability.

Anticipating these trends Mercatus has expanded beyond solar energy to build a comprehensive software solution for energy investors. The Mercatus platform now allows energy producers to efficiently diversify into multiple energy technologies, addressing the complete needs of tomorrow’s energy investor.

Mercatus provides renewable energy investors on-demand solutions and professional services to automate, standardize and simplify workflow from origination to syndication. We help leading investors grow their business faster and accelerate the deployment of capital with a focus on increasing profitability, improving productivity and enabling operational transparency.

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