Traditional institutional capital has always looked for scale and maturity in the projects they invest in – which has forced innovators and promoters to raise equity to develop projects. The result is investment must come from a company’s own cash following a successful equity raise, equity which should be used for other purposes other than project finance. Carbon Metrics acts as a bridge to gain access to the right type of funding – avoiding this trade-off.
This bridge in effect gives the institutional funders the scale they require whilst simultaneously giving smaller projects access to a market not previously open to them.