WHAT WE DO
Cambrian Energy develops, builds, owns and operates, alone or with others, projects using proven technologies to capture and convert organic waste resources into renewable energy or other higher-value end products.
Cambrian Energy is recognized as among the most knowledgeable, innovative, creative, persistent and successful developers in the alternative energy industry. It has the skills and experience to meet the complex challenges entailed in successfully completing renewable energy projects in a world of stricter environmental regulation, deregulated and changing energy markets and sophisticated financial structures.
YEARS IN BUSINESS
20
+
RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED
30
+
EXPERTISE IN ALL THREE FORMS OF ENGINEERING INVOLVED IN SUCCESSFUL RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Technical Engineering
Select the right proven technology or technologies for the reliable, efficient conversion of the waste resource to a higher value end product or products
Financial Engineering
Draft legal documents to coordinate and harmonize the working relationships among project participants and optimize the financeability of and financial return to the project
Political Engineering
Utilize in-depth understanding and ability to communicate and work effectively with local, state, and federal regulators that administer the complex body of laws and regulations that apply to renewable energy project development and operations.
SOME OF THE COMPANIES THAT HAVE CO-INVESTED WITH CAMBRIAN IN ITS RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS:
- Pacific Lighting Energy Systems (an affiliate of Southern California Gas Company)
- Solar Turbines (a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc.)
- NEO Corporation (a subsidiary of Northern States Power Company, the largest electric power utility in upper Midwest, and now part of Xcel Energy)
- Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., a publicly held utilities holding company that owns natural gas utilities, electric power utilities, water utilities and renewable energy projects.
- Energy Power Partners, a private equity fund established to invest in renewable energy projects
FEATURED PROJECTS
MCCOMMAS BLUFF LANDFILL RNG PROJECT
The McCommas Bluff Landfill in the City of Dallas, Texas covers 966 acres and is among the largest operating landfills in the United States.
In 2007 Cambrian, with a partner, acquired from a trustee in bankruptcy the operating assets of a failed RNG, or renewable natural gas (pipeline quality biomethane produced from landfill gas), project that collected and processed landfill gas produced at the McCommas Bluff Landfill and upgraded it to meet the pipeline injection standards of Atmos Pipeline-Texas.
Cambrian Energy and its partner were the fourth owners of the RNG project. All three prior owners failed due to inadequate Financial Engineering of the project. RNG had been sold as a natural gas equivalent by the prior owners on a merchant basis with no increased value realized from the environmental attributes associated with the RNG produced.
FORT SMITH LANDFILL RNG PROJECT
The Fort Smith Landfill in the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas is a regional landfill and one of the largest in the State of Arkansas. The Fort Smith RNG Project is the only RNG project in the State of Arkansas.
The project was originally developed by Cambrian Energy with a utility- subsidiary partner to sell medium btu gas to a nearby industrial user.
Cambrian Energy subsequently reacquired the project from its utility subsidiary partner. In 2006 Cambrian with a new partner developed and placed into operation an RNG project at the Fort Smith Landfill, something that had not been done before in the State of Arkansas.
The Fort Smith RNG Project delivers the RNG it produces into the Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation (AOGC) natural gas pipeline system.
LONG-STANDING TEAMING AND COLLABORATION RELATIONSHIPS WITH HIGHLY EXPERIENCED, NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED KEY PARTICIPANTS NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT AND ONGOING OPERATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
- Institutional equity investors
- Nationally recognized co-developers with significant capital for equity investment
- Lenders of limited recourse project financing
- Underwriters of tax-exempt and taxable bonds
- National engineering and operating firms
- Well-capitalized Engineering, Construction and Procurement Contractors highly experienced in installing energy facilities of all types and acceptable to equity investors and lenders
- National law firms with expertise in renewable energy project development, project finance and tax credit monetization structures
- Construction management firms
- Air permitting specialists
- Pipeline and power line contractors
- Manufacturers and suppliers of energy equipment with proven technology
- National energy and environmental attributes marketing firms (e.g., electric power and gas trading and transporting firms and RINS and LCFS credits marketing firms)
KEY TO ENDURING RELATIONSHIPS: A PHILOSOPHY OF FAIRNESS AND TRANSPARENCY WITH ALL PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
Cambrian attributes its success in developing renewable energy projects to its adherence to a philosophy of maintaining an equitable sharing of the potential economic benefits from a project among the project participants. Cambrian believes that in implementing this philosophy, it creates working relationships that result in the greatest degree of cooperation among the interested parties to enhance the likelihood for the successful long-term operation of that project.