| Asset Type | Energy Infrastructure (Battery Storage) |
| Status | Operational |
| Asset Description | 350MW (1400MWhs) battery storage project located in southern California. Construction is anticipated to start in August 2021 with COD in August 2022. Once operational, the project will provide capacity and crucial supply-shifting benefits to the California grid. The project has 2 ~15-year offtake contracts for the total project capacity. |
| Asset Revenues | 200MW are contracted under a tolling agreement for 14 years and 10 months, during which there is no merchant exposure. 150MW are contracted under a capacity contract for 15 years, during which it will earn energy arbitrage revenues on a merchant basis. |
| Counterparties | Recurrent Energy, Southern California Edison (SCE), Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) |
| Contract Expiry | Project offtake agreements terminate in ~15 years, with the project earning revenue on a merchant basis thereafter. |
| Asset Type | Energy Infrastructure (District heating & cooling) |
| Status | Operational (generation unit COD between 1980 and 2017) |
| Asset Description | Tri-generation energy complex located in Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA). Medical Area Total Energy Plan (MATEP) provides 100 MW of electricity capacity, 1,000,000 lbs / hr of steam capacity, and 41,000 tons chilled water. |
| Asset Revenues | Revenues derived from long-term utilities contracts with hospitals and medical institutions located in the LMA, including six hospitals affiliated with Harvard University. |
| Counterparty | Institutes affiliated with Harvard Institutes of Medicine (Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center) (Average credit rating of AA-) |
| Contract Expiry | 2051 (~33 years following acquisition closing) |
| Asset Type | Social Infrastructure (graduate student housing) |
| Status | Operational (substantial completion in 2014) |
| Asset Description | Aspire at West Campus is a purpose-built graduate student housing facility located at the University of Iowa (UI) in Iowa City. The facility is the only on-campus graduate student housing facility at UI and consists of 521 apartments with a total of 862 beds. Aspire is currently operated pursuant to a ground lease and operating agreement with UI under a 50-year term, including sponsor’s 10-year extension option. Rental rates are set collaboratively with the University but the sponsor has ultimate decision making authority. The original developer, Balfour Beatty, has been retained as property manager and is responsible for maintenance of the property as well as unit leasing and rent collection, for which the University also provides support. |
| Asset Revenues | Rental revenue is collected from students every month. Revenues earned above a 95% occupancy rate are split 50:50 with UI. |
| Asset Type | Energy Infrastructure (100% wind) |
| Status | Operational |
| Asset Description | 1,062 MW diversified portfolio of 7 wind assets. The portfolio is located in 3 states in the US. The portfolio has a weighted average operational age of 7 years and strong historical availability. 65% of capacity is currently contracted under long term offtake agreements. |
| Asset Revenues | The assets are primarily contracted under long-term PPAs with high-grade utility and corporate counterparties that bear a weighted average credit rating of A. Part of the portfolio currently operates on a merchant basis. |
| Contract Expiry | Portfolio has remaining average off-take tenor of 7 years with assets earning revenue on a merchant basis or through new long-term agreements thereafter. |
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