SunEdison和First Reserve（第一储备公司）将强强联手，可能最终实现价值15亿美元的投资项目。最初，First Reserve 与SunEdison共同投入了1.67亿美元在美国，加拿大，意大利，西班牙等发达国家的太阳能项目上。
SunEdison的卡洛斯说多梅内克先生指出这个行业需要高效率和可扩展的融资模式，以应付需求。他预计合资公司可以帮助促进太阳能项目的发展并实现SunEdison的发展准则，实现未来项目在现有积压的基础上进一步发展。SunEdison与First Reserve的此次合作将产生可预测的长期现金流，非常适合太阳能产业基础设施市场的要求。”
SunEdison and private equity firm, First Reserve are to partner in a joint venture that
could ultimately lead to project investments of US$1.5 billion. Initially, US$167 million
will be contributed by First Reserve and SunEdison that could potentially see solar projects
developed in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Spain.
“We are excited to partner with First Reserve, a proven leader in energy infrastructure
financing," said Carlos Domenech, President of SunEdison. "The industry needs efficient
and scalable financing models to meet demand. We expect the joint venture to help
facilitate the development of our existing backlog of project opportunities and
prospective projects that meet our development criteria."
The move would seem to shift project finance requirements away from SunEdison’s owner, MEMC, especially for existing projects in its pipeline after its recent
acquisition. Additional debt financing is expected to fund the acquisition of
solar projects developed by SunEdison with an enterprise value of US$825 million.
It was noted that First Reserve may raise an additional US$150 million, coupled with a
corresponding increase in project debt financing, which would take investments to
US$1.5 billion. No timelines were given for the capital contributions.Mark Florian,
Managing Director of First Reserve Energy Infrastructure said, “We believe the
portfolio will generate a predictable long-term cash flow suitable to our focus on
long-term infrastructure markets.”
