A platform for fueling the future with scalable, clean innovation

Who we are

About CleanTech Partners

CleanTech Partners (CTP) addresses critical barriers to scaling sustainable energy technologies, essential for achieving global climate goals and advancing the energy transition. Many innovative solutions are stalled in academic or niche ecosystems, lacking pathways to commercialization. This gap limits their global deployment and impact on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Unlike traditional intellectual property companies, CTP leverages its global reach and expertise to deploy technologies that are commercially ready or near-commercially ready, overcoming scalability bottlenecks. By bridging the divide between innovation and commercial viability, CTP unlocks the potential of sustainable technologies with first-of-its-kind deployment to resolve pressing challenges and serve underserved markets, driving meaningful progress in the global energy transition.

Meet CTP Africa

CleanTech Partners Africa Associates (CTP Africa) is our sub-Saharan Africa arm, focused on solar energy mandates. It works alongside developers, landowners and sponsors to take early-stage solar PV + battery storage projects from first idea to financial close.

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Breaking barriers to scale

The problems we solve

Clean energy technologies have great potential, but their market deployment is challenging. Developers often lack the necessary global reach and expertise, which slows innovation. Successful projects require a mix of engineering, finance, and management skills, alongside decreasing technology costs through practical use. At CleanTech Partners, we tackle these issues to accelerate the commercialization of sustainable technologies and support the global energy transition.

Here are a few of the pain points we’ve identified, with our framework offering a solution:

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Technology developers often focus on specific regions or research areas, making it harder to bring their innovations to market.
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Delivering projects needs a mix of skills, from engineering and finance to management and commercial expertise.
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To lower costs and improve efficiency, technologies must be deployed through real-world projects and refined over time.

Deployable, scalable

A deployable, scalable tech suite

At CleanTech Partners, we focus on acquiring and commercializing early-stage, high-potential technologies that are near technology-readiness level (in the refinement stages at TRL 7 or beyond) or deployment-ready.

Green hydrogen
EMEA
Currently, green hydrogen is not economically viable. However, an optimized hydrogen production module that can be deployed globally will facilitate the transition in remote locations.
Direct carbon capture
EMEA
Direct carbon capture targets CO₂ hotspots near fossil fuel hubs, deploying scalable solutions in emerging markets to reduce emissions and integrate with renewable energy systems.
Floating solar
Brazil and Asia
Limited land availability restricts affordable utility-scale solar; floating solar provides a solution to expand renewable energy capacity at a utility-scale and competitive cost.
Tidal energy
Asia and Europe
Tidal energy harnesses the predictable movements of ocean tides to generate electricity. Our renewables partner specialises in developing advanced tidal turbine generation systems — their flagship turbines are designed for efficiency and adaptability, capable of producing up to 3 megawatts (MW) of power.
Waste to value
Asia and Europe
A significant proportion of Asia’s annual crop of coconuts are wasted or aren’t leveraged for their biological energy. With our Singapore-based partner, we establish technology to provide activated carbon and DME fuel for adjacent industries.
TRL 7+
Technologies ready for real-world deployment.
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How we do it

We invest in Intellectual Property (IP) that aligns with our projects, turning innovation into real-world solutions. Our initial project pipeline brings advanced technologies to areas needing alternative and innovative infrastructure, ensuring they scale effectively. With much of the project value chain in place, we deliver impactful, sustainable energy solutions that drive tangible progress.

CLEANTECHPARTNERS AFRICA

Bringing the same approach to solar in sub-Saharan Africa

Across sub-Saharan Africa, solar PV and battery storage projects can serve grids, mines and industry. Yet many stall at the idea stage, not for lack of potential, but because the evidence investors and lenders need to commit hasn’t been built yet.

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Projects stall before they’re bankable
Early-stage solar + storage projects rarely reach investors without a clear development roadmap and a bankability diagnostic.
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Critical gaps go unaddressed
Land, grid, permits and ESG gaps need closing before institutional capital will engage.
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Capital is hard to reach
Developers, landowners and sponsors often lack direct access to DFIs, lenders and investors.

That’s why CTP Africa exists: to bridge the gap from idea to bankability, with one team from first idea all the way to financial close.

Meet CTP Africa

CleanTech Partners Africa Associates

Early-stage solar + storage project? Let’s make it bankable.

CTP Africa bridges the gap from idea to bankability, working alongside developers, landowners and sponsors to build the evidence investors and lenders need to commit. As the sub-Saharan Africa associate of CleanTech Partners, we bring one team from first idea all the way to financial close.

Now screening: Solar PV + BESS · Sub-Saharan Africa

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Bertie Lombard · bertie.lombard@cleantechpartners.com

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What we do: one team from first idea to financial close

STEP 1
Idea & pre-feasibility
Bankability diagnostic and development roadmap
STEP 2
Project preparation
Project and financial management, VDR set-up
STEP 3
Institutional capital
Equity and debt raise, VDR management through due diligence
STEP 4
Financial close
Coordinating every workstream to close

We’re looking for

Solar PV + BESS projects from ~25 MWp, grid or mining/industrial offtake
Mandates anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa
Projects at idea or early pre-feasibility stage
Sponsors with a site in mind and a likely route to market

We bring

A bankability diagnostic of your project
Gap closure on land, grid, permits and ESG
Access to our DFI, lender and investor network

About us

Meet the partners

Andy Merris
Andy is a globally experienced investment manager with commercial acumen and strategy developed working across financial, legal and technical advisory and due diligence mandates.
Bertie Lombard
Bertie has over 30 years of experience in wholesale banking, corporate and investment banking, and financial risk management, with a focus on emerging markets in Africa and the GCC. Today he works directly at the early-stage gap on live mandates, drawing on strong relationships with developers, banks and international investors, including DFIs.
John Safrance
John brings 25 years of financial modelling and transaction work on renewable energy and infrastructure. He led the project finance models for Project Shuman and Project Mazabuka, and built the valuation model BlackRock used to acquire a stake in Lake Turkana Wind Power. As former VP at JCM Power, he delivered two DFI-backed equity raises of about US$150M. He has also served as a sustainable finance adviser to UN-Habitat and spent 18 years as a renewables equities analyst.