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Tax Equity Specialists

Development Capital
Sponsor & Tax Equity
Project Debt
Mezzanine Capital

M&A

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Professional Process

Sell-Side
Buy-Side
10 MW+ Projects
Expansive Acquirer Network

Advisory

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Structuring & Strategy

Outsourced Project Finance
Financial Analysis & Modeling
Corporate Energy Procurement
Strategic Consulting

Solar

  • Our team has over 30 years of experience financing solar projects
  • Our team helped build many industry-leading solar finance platforms
  • Our team worked on many of the early financing structures in solar

Wind

  • Our team has structured several large wind projects
  • We have strong relationships with nearly all of the wind tax equity investors
  • The costs of wind make it a compelling technology for corporate off-takers

Storage

  • Low cost and efficient storage will accelerate the adoption of solar projects
  • Our team has significant experience financing storage with renewable energy projects
  • Leverage our experience to capitalize on this emerging technology

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NextPower Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area based clean energy infrastructure investment bank focused on Capital Raises, M&A, and Advisory Services across North America. Leveraging our extensive network of capital providers, we specialize in structuring tax-equity and debt transactions across utility-scale, commercial, and residential projects that employ renewable energy and storage technologies. We conduct M&A sell-side and buy-side processes around renewable energy projects and portfolios, and we help developers and companies raise early to mid-stage capital. Our principals have extensive experience developing projects and raising capital for many of the leading U.S. solar investors and developers, allowing us to play a more "in-house" role than traditionally done by financial advisory firms. With a proven track-record of creating innovative financing structures, the NextPower Capital team also assists companies participating in leading-edge markets, including PACE, community solar, community-choice aggregation, corporate energy procurement, vehicle electrification, and energy storage.

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David Goldman, CFA

Managing Partner
Profile

Mr. Goldman has worked in the solar finance industry since 2004 and has led and closed hundreds of solar transactions, as well as successfully launching several entrepreneurial ventures. He co-founded NextPower Capital, where he now co-leads investment banking activities. Prior to founding NextPower Capital, Mr. Goldman was Managing Director of Financial Products for SunEdison’s Small Commercial business, following SunEdison's acquisition of InSource Energy, a commercial financing platform which he co-founded and led. Prior to co-founding InSource Energy, Mr. Goldman served as the Senior Vice President of Financial Products at Mosaic, where he led commercial origination and underwriting, and was instrumental in developing Mosaic’s dominant residential loan product.

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Before Mosaic, Mr. Goldman served as Vice President of Project Finance and General Manager of Solar Products for Solon Corporation, and as Director of Structured Finance for SunPower. Mr. Goldman holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, is a CFA charter holder, and holds Series 7, 63 and 79 securities licenses.

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Brian Magner

Managing Director
Profile

Mr. Magner has over 18 years of experience in arranging financing for solar, wind, and battery energy storage projects. He has successfully secured funding for hundreds of solar projects, ranging from large utility-scale installations to portfolios of community solar and distributed generation projects. His expertise also extends to financing utility-scale wind projects and battery energy storage systems. Before joining NextPower Capital, Brian worked independently as a project finance consultant and advisor to battery storage developers. He previously served as Vice President and Head of Project Finance at Clearway Energy Group, leading the arrangement of debt, tax equity, and acquisitions for projects across the United States.

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Earlier in his career, Brian held the same role at NRG Energy, overseeing project finance operations, and was Vice President and Head of Project Finance at Recurrent Energy, where he secured over $4 billion in project-level debt and equity for more than 50 utility-scale solar projects across North America. His experience also includes key roles at SunPower and PowerLight Corporation, where he was instrumental in the development, analysis, execution, and closing of various utility and distributed generation solar projects. Brian holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.

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