RE: Billingham13 Nov 2020 19:27
Billingham may only utilise a small amount from EQT which will be to take the project to financial close. I would expect a full banking feasibility study would be submitted and the project fully funded by bank finance. Why would a bank not lend on a project with an IRR of 12-14% ?
DP also specialises in this area, check out his profile. He is/was a managing partner of Origen Private Equity which looks to fund new investments with a social and environmental focus. That's why I think DP will transform EQT from a small manufacturer of advanced gasification equipment to an owner operator of EfW plants. This includes revenue from construction of the plant through purchasing their own gasification equipment, a return on their initial project stake to financial close plus all the operations and maintenance after care.
The strategy is brilliant. EQT will be the design and planning consultant, the EPC contractor, the gasification equipment manufacturer, the owner operator and the aftercare contractor. Revenue coming in from everywhere.
Project finance will all be set up by the SPV and this was what the £10m fund raise was for. To allow EQT to take an initial stake in the project and get it to financial close.