Allete secures $350m tax equity for US wind duo
US company Allete has secured almost $350m in tax equity financing in support of two recently completed wind farms in Oklahoma and Minnesota with combined capacity of 553MW. Allete Clean Energy has sold Class A passive membership interests in the 303MW Diamond Spring project in Oklahoma to FNBC Leasing, an affiliate of JPM Capital Corp. The wind farm sells electricity to Walmart, Smithfield Foods and Starbucks and achieved full commercial operation in early December. Allete South Wind has secured tax equity financing from Bank of America for the 250MW Nobles 2 wind farm in southwestern Minnes...