Lending for "natural" project finance

May 03, 2025
by a searcher in London, UK
My firm is an infrastructure project finance lender, with a focus on integrating nature into the developments - we call this "natural infrastructure". We have the knowledge and networks in ecology and engineering required, can support with financially modelling the investment, and can also connect to equity investors interested in this natural infrastructure theme.
I'm looking for introductions to searchers/owners/operators in the following sectors that are wanting to expand using project finance and would be open to using commercially relevant treatment wetlands in the development.
Treatment wetlands are highly cost efficient ways to treat contaminated waste, purify polluted water, and provide cooling. We've seen cases where cooling ponds for example are able to deal with the entire cooling load of a 1MW data centre year round, greatly improving margins.
Sectors:
Data centres - high cooling costs, water use depending on systems
Semiconductor fabs – wastewater treatment, coolingMining – polluted runoff treatment, cooling for deep minesAgriculture – nutrient runoff treatmentPulp & paper – organic wastewater treatmentPetrochemical – chemical wastewater treatmentLivestock & aquaculture – nutrient waste treatmentTextile & dye – dye wastewater treatmentAirports and roads – runoff treatmentLandfills – leachate treatment
Dredging - waste treatment
Contaminated brownfield sites - site remediationFood & beverage – high water use, wastewater treatmentSteel & metal processing – cooling, contaminated water treatmentPharmaceuticals / chemical manufacturing - wastewater treatmentPower plants – cooling, wastewater reuseHotels & resorts – greywater reuse, landscaping, cooling
We're open to talking about our project finance debt could be part of a transaction and how this can be a play to help improve operating margins in the above sectors as well.
Does anyone know anyone they could connect me to? Thanks in advance!
in Negros Occidental, Philippines
from Durham University in London, UK