Alturus

qualified capital for sustainable infrastructure

Overview

Alturus provides qualified, competitively sourced capital for sustainable infrastructure projects.

Fortune 1000 companies work with Alturus to structure comprehensive financing solutions for their energy conservation, generation and storage initiatives.

Alturus enables customers to maximize the benefits available from the latest energy efficiency, HVAC, water treatment, equipment controls, building automation systems or onsite cogeneration technologies. By working with Alturus, companies are able to dramatically reduce energy costs and greatly improve the environmental performance of their operations.

Background

Historically, the latest energy conservation, generation and storage technologies have required end users to make a significant capital investment to install at scale.

Fortune 1000 energy managers have been forced to fight for capital investment allocations in order to pursue cost saving energy management initiatives that would help meet sustainability targets. These investment requirements compete with other core business activities and have often made installing at scale a challenge.

Until now.

Alturus provides qualified capital for sustainable infrastructure projects. We work with Fortune 1000 companies to structure comprehensive financing solutions for their energy conservation, generation and storage initiatives. Companies work with Alturus as the preferred financing partner for their HVAC, building automation, equipment control, onsite cogeneration, energy storage and water treatment projects.

Alturus enables companies to structure and deploy energy efficiency and sustainable infrastructure upgrades at scale without any capital investment required. As a result, energy and facilities managers can spend their time working on projects that reduce costs and improve the environmental performance of their operations.

How It Works

Alturus structures and manages the entire project financing process for our customers in a highly transparent manner.

Alturus manages an extensive, proprietary network of capital providers who are interested in investing in sustainable infrastructure projects. These investors include institutional asset managers, sovereign wealth funds and multi-family offices who manage total aggregate portfolios in excess of $100 billion. They look to Alturus to manage the entire origination and underwriting process for their investments in energy conservation, generation and generation and storage projects.

Alturus leverages its market knowledge to structure financing solutions for our customers that leverage the lowest cost of capital available in order to maximize the value of their energy management and sustainability initiatives. Customers are provided with a complete audit trail of the project finance program for their projects.

Management

Chris Hayes, managing partner

Chris is a founder and managing partner of Alturus. He has a twenty year career innovating in finance and clean energy. Prior, Chris was a founder of Altenex where he originated, analyzed, negotiated and closed over $4 billion of clean energy projects. He has a passion for building companies and transforming emerging markets. Chris lives in New England with his family and enjoys time with them on the ocean and in the mountains.

Charles Esdaile, managing partner

As a founder of Altenex, Charles lead market development and strategy for Altenex. He was responsible for identifying opportunities for buy-side subscribers to align their interests to increase the value of their energy management initiatives. Charles’s background includes experience in investment banking and strategic consulting. Throughout his career, Charles has delivered numerous strategic solutions to Fortune 500 companies with a particular focus on the intersection of technology, energy and infrastructure.

Charlie Daum, managing director

Charlie has an extensive career in clean energy, power markets and energy finance. He has been involved in many areas of the energy business specializing in all aspects of project development, M&A, power markets and origination. Prior to Alturus, Charlie was a founding member of Geronimo Energy and most recently served as Managing Director at Altenex where he worked closely with Fortune 500 clients to deliver innovative and effective clean energy solutions to meet their unique needs.

Gopal Vemuri, managing director

Gopal Vemuri has extensive experience in the energy markets, from project acquisition to PPA negotiation and execution. He has raised more than $500M on funding for power projects with over 2.5 GW capacity, and determined pricing and strategy for over 500 MW of contracted capacity. He most recently served as Director of Capital Markets for Edison Energy, where he led the establishment of the capital markets divi- sion, launched an investment partnership with a multi-billion dollar IPP, and raised $50M in funding for investment in on-site energy solutions including CHP and battery storage.

Nick Riva, director

Nick Riva began his career in infrastructure and project finance in 2010. He joins Alturus from Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), a leading infrastructure fund with >$48 billion in AUM, where he focused on investments in renewable energy, power and transportation. At GIP, he led the investment process for a +320 MW distributed generation portfolio as part of GIP’s $1.4 billion acquisition of NRG’s renewable development and operations platform. Prior to GIP, Nick worked in the Global Industrials Group in investment banking at UBS. Nick holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.