Karbone, Inc. services

Karbone provides an array of consulting services to renewable energy and carbon offset developers, focused on the monetization of environmental credits. Our team works with asset owners to provide the tools and resources necessary to develop renewable energy projects.

Karbone provides unbiased, independent advisory services for clients looking to structure their capital stack in order to maximize returns on renewable energy projects. The team members draw on broad transactions experience and advise clients on the most effective ways to source capital and arrive at an optimal financing mix of equity, tax equity, and debt. Karbone’s team has extensive relationships with private equity funds, pension funds, and lending institutions.

Renewable Portfolio Standards in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (“WECC”) continue to evolve, impacted by regulatory changes and public policy initiatives. For example, the California Senate and Assembly passed legislation that increased the RPS target to 33% by 2020 while creating three renewable energy categories usable for compliance obligations. Other nearby states, such as Oregon and Washington also contain emerging RPS markets that spur renewable energy development for various technologies. In addition, renewable energy resources from Provinces within the WECC, specifically Alberta and British Columbia, also can play a role in addressing RPS compliance within some states in the Western U.S.

Karbone’s full service structuring and brokerage practices cover not only green credits, but also the underlying commodities from which these assets are derived. Primary among these physical green commodities are biofuels, including biomass, biogas, and bioliquids. These biofuels represent the direct, sustainable equivalents of traditional fossil fuels—coal, natural gas and oil. In this way, Karbone’s biofuels brokerage initiatives are helping to drive the green fuel-switch that forms a fundamental part of the new energy economy.