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Capital Library

Capital answers before the route is chosen.

Plain-English guides for developers, owners, Treasury teams, and operating leaders deciding how a project, contract, asset base, or CapEx program should be financed.

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Start with the decision

Different capital routes solve different problems.

A lease, private placement, equipment financing, sale-leaseback, direct loan, or project financing is not automatically better because it has a familiar label. The fit depends on the payment obligation, legal obligor, asset, useful life, contract term, collateral, timing, and business objective.

These guides explain the questions that narrow the field. They are educational, not a financing commitment or a substitute for legal, tax, accounting, securities, or provider diligence.

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Core concept

What is credit-backed project capital?

Learn how a durable payment obligation may support capital against the counterparty and contract, rather than only the sponsor.

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Developer route

Can tenant or offtaker credit reduce project equity?

Understand what credit can carry, what remains sponsor risk, and which contract terms matter most.

Review the project test
Existing assets

How can equipment, TI, and CapEx support liquidity?

Review backward-looking recapture and forward financing for equipment, improvements, technology, and facilities.

Review the asset test
Capital routes

When should a project use private or insurance credit?

Compare long-duration capital routes without treating CTL, private placements, or direct lending as interchangeable.

Compare the routes
Contract review

What makes a tenant or offtake contract financeable?

See why term, payment durability, termination rights, assignment, remedies, and credit support change the answer.

Review the contract questions
First engagement

What is a Capital Opportunity Scan?

Understand the inputs, outputs, and decisions a focused review is designed to support.

See what the scan covers