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Energy Capital Partners and Former GIP Credit Partners Launch ECP ForeStar Sustainable Credit Platform

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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Energy Capital Partners (“ECP”), a leading energy transition-focused investor with a nearly two-decades-long track record of investments in the electricity, clean energy, renewable and sustainable infrastructure sectors, today announced that a team led by former Global Infrastructure Partners’ (“GIP”) partners, Jennifer Powers and Reiner Boehning, will merge into ECP’s dedicated credit investing business and launch a sustainable credit platform named ECP ForeStar, which will offer credit solutions to a broad array of businesses focused on climate transition, decarbonization and sustainable solutions.

Key Points: 
  • Energy Capital Partners (“ECP”), a leading energy transition-focused investor with a nearly two-decades-long track record of investments in the electricity, clean energy, renewable and sustainable infrastructure sectors, today announced that a team led by former Global Infrastructure Partners’ (“GIP”) partners, Jennifer Powers and Reiner Boehning, will merge into ECP’s dedicated credit investing business and launch a sustainable credit platform named ECP ForeStar, which will offer credit solutions to a broad array of businesses focused on climate transition, decarbonization and sustainable solutions.
  • The platform will significantly grow ECP’s existing credit strategy with an expanded team and over $2.5 billion in initial capital allocations.
  • At GIP, they established, grew and led the GIP Credit platform, where they managed over $5 billion of credit capital.
  • ECP ForeStar’s sustainable credit platform will be highly differentiated and be at the forefront of financing the sustainable industrial revolution, wholly focused on providing credit capital to businesses supporting decarbonization and sustainability.