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Landmark transaction redefines how BESS assets are financed in France

Green Giraffe Advisory helped Acacia unlock a financing structure that balances flexibility with lender security, demonstrating that strategic advisory is the key to de-risking the energy transition. This is one of the first project financings in the French BESS market which addresses a critical industry challenge: optimising merchant exposure bankability.
Acacia-Bloom II

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SunLib raises €25 million to accelerate the development of solar subscriptions in France

Green Giraffe acted as exclusive financial advisors, supporting the expansion of SunLib's innovative solar-as-a-service model. This funding marks a milestone toward their 2030 goal of serving over 100,000 clients.
SunLib – Stellar (fundraising)

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Ray8 Energy secures growth capital for its next key phase of expansion in Japan

Green Giraffe Advisory is honoured to have supported Ray8 Energy, a rapidly expanding BESS development platform in Japan, in securing growth capital for its next key phase of expansion.
Transactions

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Octopus Energy Generation Repowers Marsanne and Grand Bois Onshore Wind Farms

Green Giraffe Advisory has successfully advised Octopus Energy Generation on the EUR 83 M repowering project financing for Project Roussanne. This financial close marks a significant milestone, nearly doubling the project's capacity to 33.6 MW and significantly extending the operational life of these key French wind assets.
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How renewables are driving Southern Africa's energy success

Southern Africa’s renewable energy sector is dynamic, expanding, and increasingly shaped by private offtake demand, evolving policy frameworks, and cross-border market mechanisms. While grid availability and regulatory complexity remain the region’s main challenges, the outlook is positive. The emergence of energy trading markets and entities provides a promising and exciting new way for projects to sell generated electricity and, with the addition of BESS, the opportunity to maximise capture prices.
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Green Giraffe Advises Vireo on Landmark Bio-LNG Plant Financing in Norway

Green Giraffe Advisory is proud to announce its role as the exclusive financial advisor to Vireo, a pioneering Norwegian developer of biogas plants, in securing the financing for their greenfield Hardanger Biogas plant
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We are a group of enthusiastic and hard-working Giraffes who are driven by actively contributing to the energy transition!
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The North Sea Investment Pact: When mechanism matters more than volume

The North Sea Summit on 26 January was about far more than offshore wind targets. It was a deliberate political signal from the North Sea countries that clean energy is now inseparable from security, resilience and industrial policy.
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Featured projects
PtX Faraday development equity fundraise

PtX Faraday development equity fundraise

Development equity

A development equity raise for a 1+ GW electrolyser project being built on the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Lubmin, Germany. The project is in an early stage of development and needed a co-investor to fund upcoming development expenses.
August Energy

August Energy

Development equity

Aravest to invest and partner with August Energy with up to USD 100M of capital to accelerate the growth of Energy as a Service in Asia
Virya Energy – Yanco Delta (sell-side)

Virya Energy – Yanco Delta (sell-side)

M&A advisory

Sell-side advisory mandate for the 100% divestment of Yanco Delta Wind Farm (‘’Yanco Delta’’). Yanco Delta is a 1.5 GW onshore wind farm with an 800 MWh BESS, in development. It is one of the largest wind and energy storage projects in Australia.

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What we do

We get deals done!

Green Giraffe Advisory is the pioneering advisory arm of the Green Giraffe Group, dedicated to pushing the next frontier in finance. We are the premier financial advisor for energy transition projects and investors. We offer bespoke financial advice, market intelligence and development services in all renewable and energy transition technologies 

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Who we are

Green Giraffe Advisory draws its strength from its international team

Green Giraffe Advisory is an independent financial advisory company, focused on helping clients shape the energy transition. Based in offices on 5 continents, Green Giraffe Advisory is built on the expertise of 110+ professionals with project & corporate finance, M&A, tendering, contracting and legal backgrounds

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Our Services

Debt
advisory

We support project developers in (re)structuring and arranging non-recourse finance and other debt products

Development
equity

We support project owners in finding the right partners for the development of their renewable energy projects

M&A
advisory

We support clients in divesting or acquiring an interest in a target or project in the renewable energy space

Tender
support

We are involved in numerous renewable energy tenders in different technologies throughout the world

Strategy & intelligence

We provide sectorial intelligence, specialised resources, benchmarking and standalone modelling services

PPA
advisory

We provide market intelligence and help you value, structure and negotiate your offtake arrangement

Our Sectors

Onshore Bioenergy Storage Solar Floating Transmission, Distribution and Interconnectors Offshore e-Mobility Hydrogen& e-fuels

e-Mobility

Hydrogen and e-fuels

Offshore

Onshore

Floating

Solar

Storage

Bioenergy

Transmission, Distribution and Interconnectors
UK’s Net Zero Grid Plans: Ambitious or Harmful?

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UK’s Net Zero Grid Plans: Ambitious or Harmful?

On the 1st  March 2024, I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror and realised I had inexorably become a bald, fat bloke. A combination of eating too much cheese and drinking too much beer has led me to steadily gain weight until I was a chunky 260 pounds. So, I started on Wegovy with a clear plan to lose 75 pounds by 31st December 2024. It has somewhat worked; I’ve lost 51 pounds. However, I woke up on New Year’s Day about 33% short of my goal. And that’s okay, because I only set that deadline for myself, and to everyone else, I was just losing weight. So, how much, and by when was irrelevant; it didn’t undermine the point of what I was trying to do. And this is where we segue into renewable energy, the UK Government’s ambitious plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030 and why the UK may not meet that deadline could undermine the wider green energy revolution.

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Chinese turbines cannot succeed in the European offshore wind market because they are not bankable. Myth or reality?

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Chinese turbines cannot succeed in the European offshore wind market because they are not bankable. Myth or reality?

This month, Mingyang announced a deal with the Italian government to build a factory in Italy supplying their 19MW turbines to the wind farms developed by Italian developer Renexia. It is the latest of a series of announcements that involve the Chinese turbine manufacturer. They already supplied the first ever Chinese offshore turbines in Europe for a project developed by the same Renexia off Taranto and have now signed a preferred supply agreement with Luxcara, who has just won a 1.5 GW site in Germany this week.   While Chinese dominance in solar, battery and so many other sectors has been widely accepted, each piece of news about Chinese turbine suppliers knocking at the European door is followed by heated debates. Is the competition fair or is China subsidising its industry, as suggested in a recent investigation of the EU commission that raises fears of a new trade war? Should the European policy makers go one step further and copy the US in their protectionism? Can public auctions define rules that prevent Chinese turbines to be competitive? In the urgency that climate change commands, is the question of where the turbines come from of any relevance at all? While the cost of living is fuelling the surge of the extreme right everywhere in Europe, is it sensible to fight the cheapest option?

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Is FER 2 the beginning of the offshore wind era in Italy?

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Is FER 2 the beginning of the offshore wind era in Italy?

Italy, one of the most promising markets for floating offshore wind We were recently asked by a client to indicate which countries we think could build commercial size floating offshore wind projects by 2030. They looked very surprised when we mentioned Italy in our very short list, together with the UK and Korea (and optimistically Taiwan). In recent years, offshore wind has been a central topic of discussion in Italy, with the arrival of a long-awaited government decree and a large number of projects under development. The industry is now more vibrant than ever. Italy is currently considered the third most promising market for floating offshore wind development in the world.[1] What does this mean for a country that at the moment has only one operational fixed bottom offshore wind farm installed, for a total of 30 MW? What is actually required to unlock this potential? Let’s start by digging into the numbers. Although the offshore wind target that the Italian government set in the latest NECP[2] was 2.1 GW by 2030, both market research and industry publications have adopted a much more bullish view. According to a number of industry studies[3], Italy has the potential to install 11 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2040 and to reach at least 20 GW of installed capacity by 2050. Achieving this growth has the potential to unlock a cumulative value of ~EUR 57 bn and to create approximately 27,000 new jobs between 2030 and 2050.

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The future of financing renewables in South Africa

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The future of financing renewables in South Africa

Since opening its office in Cape Town in 2017, Green Giraffe has been involved in three renewables government tenders in South Africa, with the most recent milestone being the financial close of the REIPPP Bid Window Round 5 projects of Coleskop WEF, Phezukomoya WEF and San Kraal WEF – the first three projects from Bid Window 5 to reach financial close. The South Africa market is now looking beyond government tenders towards utility-scale projects in the C&I space. What the REIPPP program has provided is a blueprint for financing utility-scale projects in South Africa for various offtake structures, and lenders & investors are allocating large amounts of capital to fund them – bringing much needed energy online.

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Rates are coming down, but should the Energy Transition hope for a recession?

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Rates are coming down, but should the Energy Transition hope for a recession?

The financial news is full of messages about the bloating and volatility of capital markets, led in-particular by the tech mega-caps. The condition of the underlying economy doesn’t justify this bloating and indeed it doesn’t take much to scare the markets off their current highs. These lofty stock prices appear to be everywhere unless ironically – like me – you tend to read everything through the energy transition (ET) lens. Let’s be honest, one can’t help a feeling of FOMO! Aren’t we supposed to be the great economic miracle of this century? Consensus seems to be that overall monetary policy has done a reasonable job at taming the recent inflation bout. Thankfully so far this has been done without tipping the global economy into recession; no small feat given the myriad of additional headwinds. Fair to say though those same monetary policies have created a huge headwind in renewables, understandably so given cost of capital is the fuel of the transition. And that, in part at least, is the answer for our FOMO as we know.

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