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Capital for utility-scale battery storage.

BESS is the fastest-moving asset class in European energy — and the hardest to finance well. Revenue stacks are complex, merchant exposure divides investment committees, and half the pipeline will never reach financial close. We raise debt and equity for the projects that will.

Revenue Structures

We speak the language your lenders will use.

How a BESS project earns determines how it can be financed. We structure raises around the revenue stack — not despite it.

Tolling & offtake

Fixed capacity payments from a single offtaker. The most bankable structure in the market today — supports the highest leverage and the tightest pricing from senior lenders.

Merchant

Wholesale arbitrage and balancing revenues. Higher returns, wider investor filter. We know which funds genuinely underwrite merchant risk — and which only say they do.

Capacity markets

Contracted capacity payments layered under merchant upside. The hybrid stack most German and UK projects now take to committee.

Ancillary services

Frequency response and grid services — high-value, saturating fast. We model saturation into the case before an investor does it for you.

Financing by Stage

From grid offer to operating asset.

StageWhat we raiseTypical providers
Late developmentDevelopment capital, bridge facilities, partner equity for grid deposits, permitting and procurement.Specialist development investors, family offices, strategic partners
Ready to buildConstruction debt and project equity; EPC and BESS supply structuring alongside the raise.Infrastructure funds, banks, credit funds
Construction → CODTerm conversion, revenue contracting (tolls, floors), co-investment for portfolio scale-up.Institutional lenders, insurance capital
OperationsRefinancing, portfolio sales, bond and securitisation structures for aggregated assets.Pension capital, bond investors, core infra funds
Why AIP for BESS

Precision matters most where capital is most selective.

8–15

Investors approached, not 300

BESS investment criteria vary more than in any other renewable class — duration, market, revenue mix, stage. Broadcasting a BESS teaser wastes it. We shortlist investors whose mandates actually fit.

114

Transactions of structuring experience

Since 2010 we have closed development, construction, refinancing and M&A mandates across renewables. That structuring depth transfers directly to storage's more complex stacks.

100%

Success-fee only

We are paid when your project funds. If we don't believe your revenue case survives committee, we tell you before the market does.

Battery Storage

Bring us the project others found hard to finance.

Send the essentials — capacity, duration, market, grid status, revenue strategy, capital sought — and a partner will respond within two working days with a view, not an autoreply.