About Us
MaxEn Capital Advisors was born from a passion for alternativealternative energy. After many years of financing real estate developments and traditional energy related projects, principals of MaxEn, in 2003, shifted their focus to alternative energy. At that time, interest in alternative energy was limited to visionaries, scientists, and environmentalists. Now, in 2011, we occupy a strong position with in-depth knowledge of leading technologies and related project development requirements.
Our assessment is that the demand for alternative energy products and services is likely to expand from a $55 billion market in 2006 – to well over $377.6 billion by 2016. During this period – 2006 to 2016:
- Sale of solar photo-voltaics will grow from $15.6 billion to $160.9 billion
- Wind-power will grow from $18 billion to $60 billion
- Fuel cells will grow from $1 billion to $16 billion
- LED manufacture will grow from $3.2 billion to $25.6 billion
- Bio-mass, Bio-fuel industries will grow from $16 billion to $81 billion
- Use of clean coal gasification will grow from $6 billion to $36 billion.
MaxEn provides equity and debt financing to these sectors as well as advisory services and development expertise.
MaxEn Capital maintains close relationships with a wide variety of energy project financing sources, including providers of development capital, long term equity and limited-recourse debt . These financing sources vary considerably in their appetite for development and technology risk, understanding of plant economics, IRR requirements, accounting constraints, ability to utilize tax benefits and approval processes. The result is an extremely diverse set of investors and lenders, each unique. Our ability to anticipate and understand the details of these differences is essential when taking deals to market. MaxEn Capital maintains regular contacts with these sources in order to stay up-to-date on their needs and constraints, and to be able to select financing sources best-suited to a given technology, location and transaction size.
MaxEn Capital is independent of any financial institution, it can bring your company the best terms the current capital markets have to offer.
In 2012 we will be introducing our first Private Equity Fund, the Catalyst Capital Fund 1. This fund targets the development phase of alternative energy projects by lending to developers, offering consulting expertise and taking part of the payment as equity. Our many years of work in this area will keep risk to a minimum, thus protecting capital invested.
Together with partners in China, we are also developing a China Clean Energy Fund. We expect to be ready to make equity investments in China based projects via this fund in 2012.
