Sustainability & Renewable Resources

Financing sustainable renewable resource projects and infrastructure presents complex challenges. Sperry offers comprehensive advisory services for sustainable infrastructure projects including financial feasibility analysis, credit evaluation of feedstock and off-take agreements and other critical path contracts in preparation for bond issuance, and equity solicitation. Opportunities for public-private partnerships utilizing a broad spectrum of financing tools, including taxable and tax-exempt debt, federal and state grants and loan guarantees, and stakeholder equity are thoroughly reviewed for suitability by our advisory teams.

 

Sperry principals have experience advising infrastructure projects for:

Biogas & Biosolids

Projects have included green waste digesters to generate biogas as boiler fuel and a facility to dewater biosolids for use as a medium grade coal substitute in cement kilns.

Ethanol & Biodiesel

Sperry served as financing advisor to an innovative ethanol project using sugar beets as feedstock and almond shell combustion as the process heat source. Sperry also arranged debt financing for a biodiesel plant under the California small manufacturing bond financing program.

Solid Waste Conversion

Sperry advises a project to extract clean fiber for brown paper manufacturing from municipal solid waste.

Desalination

Sperry advises an innovative thermal desalination project to divert and clean contaminated process water in the agriculture processing industry.

Green Bond Financing

 

Sperry professionals have assisted municipal advisory clients in securing climate bond certification for green bond issuance and assisting them with post-issuance compliance. We can assist clients in transportation, municipal utilities, and other sectors in meeting organizational policies for green bond issuance to fund sustainable infrastructure.