Alchemy Renewable Energy (ARE), a high growth portfolio company of Monarch Private Capital that owns and operates renewable energy facilities, announces the financial closing for a 44.51-Megawatt (DC) solar, renewable energy portfolio across Indiana, with joint venture partner Telamon Enterprise Ventures LLC (TEV).

ARE’s parent, Monarch Private Capital (MPC), secured the tax equity financing of a seven-solar-project portfolio in the state of Indiana through a partnership with a large, domestic life insurance company. “Insurance companies are increasingly attracted to providing tax equity for utility-scale solar projects,” said Chuck Kaiser, Monarch Private Capital’s Managing Director of Financial Investments. “Expected returns are substantially higher than those available in the investment-grade fixed-income market for a relatively low-risk investment.”  

The portfolio was developed by the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA), a wholesale electric power provider, who is the offtaker and Engineering Procurement & Construction provider for the portfolio of projects. With projects in Gas City, Centerville, Crawfordsville, Richmond, Scottsburg, Tell City, and Tipton, the ARE and TEV joint venture will have 12 total projects servicing IMPA cities. TEV serves as the majority co-sponsor of the portfolio, with ARE as the minority co-sponsor.

An investment of this size will have a considerable, positive environmental impact on communities in Indiana and surrounding states by:

• Reducing approximately 39,000 MT of CO2e emissions in the first twelve months of operations (the equivalent to removing 8,500 passenger cars from the road for a year),  
• Over the first six years of operations, an estimated 233,000 MT CO2e of emissions would be avoided (the equivalent to reducing gasoline consumption by 26 million gallons), and
• During the first 35 years of operations, roughly 1.2 million MT CO2e would be reduced in and around these communities (the equivalent of 214,000 homes’ electricity use for one year

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