Founded in 1989, Capital Technology, Inc. (CTI) is a specialized FINRA broker-dealer that provides financial advisory and capital-raising services for developers and owners of clean and renewable energy projects.
CTI's mission is to create substantial, lasting value for its clients through creative transaction-oriented problem-solving. CTI excels at strategic and first-of-a-kind merger & acquisition and capital-raising assignments where it can bring to bear its blend of financial, commercial and technical expertise on major transactions. Clients have included developers, government agencies, industrial hosts, turnkey contractors, equipment suppliers, gas and electric utilities, equity investors and lenders.
20 years of clean and renewable energy financing
CTI and its alliance members have successfully closed or obtained commitments on over $7 billion in project equity, taxable and tax-exempt project debt, DOE loan guarantees and/or sell and buy side merger and acquisition transactions involving the following fuels and technologies:
- Coal, petcoke, biomass and MSW-fueled gasification
- Nuclear
- Waste coal-fired circulating fluidized bed
- Landfill gas-to-energy
- Natural gas combined cycle
- Hydroelectric
- Biomass
- Wind, solar and ocean wave energy
CTI has also performs strategic consulting assignments involving the above technologies. Two of CTI's members are currently serving as Senior Evaluators for the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program Office charged with ranking nuclear power and fossil project loan guarantee applications. On all technologies except nuclear, CTI is able to advise applicants on how best to navigate their way through the federal loan guarantee application process.
Clean and renewable energy capital sources
CTI maintains close relationships with a wide variety of energy project financing sources, including providers of development capital, permanent equity and limited-recourse debt (see Investors). These financing sources vary considerably in their appetite for development and technology risk, understanding of process plant economics, return requirements, accounting constraints, ability to utilize tax benefits and approval processes. The result is an extremely diverse set of investors, each unique unto themselves. Being able to anticipate these differences is essential when taking deals to market. CTI maintains regular contacts with these sources in order to stay up-to-date on their needs and constraints, and to be able to select financing sources best- suited to a given technology, location and transaction size.
Because CTI is independent of any financial institution, it can bring your company the best terms the current capital markets have to offer.
World-class people resources
By staffing assignments with seasoned financial, commercial and technical experts (see Resources), CTI is able to custom-tailor the engagement team to fit your exact needs. On specialized gasification issues, CTI is also able to draw on the full technical resources of R. W. Beck, Inc.
Compensation policy
CTI utilizes a variety of ways to achieve the kind of close alignment with a client's interests needed to ensure a high closing rate. Usually this is best achieved through a non-contingent hourly, weekly or monthly retainer in addition to the usual fully-contingent success fee scaled to the size of the transaction. In each case we try to tailor CTI's compensation to the client's needs.