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Pine Gate Renewables Files for Chapter 11, Launches Lender-Backed Sale of Assets

Court supervision with new financing will keep projects and payroll running through a 45-day bidding window.

Overview

  • The U.S. developer and certain subsidiaries filed in the Southern District of Texas to run a competitive, court-supervised sale of substantially all assets and operations.
  • Current lenders committed financing and agreed to act as stalking-horse bidders for asset portfolios, including a deal covering the IPP platform and about 10 GWdc of safe-harbored pipeline.
  • Pine Gate stated that development, construction, O&M services, and power generation will continue, supported by first-day motions to pay employees and honor postpetition obligations.
  • ACT Power Services was excluded from the Chapter 11 cases, and the company is pursuing a separate sale of that O&M business.
  • The company named Alvarez & Marsal’s Mark Rajcevich as chief restructuring officer, and Blue Ridge Power’s September WARN notices outlined more than 500 planned layoffs by November 18.