IPP Lydian Energy has secured US$689 million in financing for two solar projects and a battery energy storage system (BESS) project in New Mexico, Texas, and Utah, US.
The full-stack financing is supported by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and MUFG Bank and includes a construction-to-term loan, a tax credit bridge loan, a co-investment bridge loan, and a letter of credit facility.
Faraday BESS Phase 1 is a 150MW/733MWh BESS in Utah. The project is backed by a long-term power purchase agreement PPA with an investment-grade off-taker.
AC Ranch 1 is a 75MWac solar PV project in New Mexico, with a derisked, busbar PPA. Lydian says it delivers steady quarterly cash flows on a fully contracted basis with an investment-grade off-taker.
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Yellow Viking is a 170MWac solar PV project in Texas. Located within the utility Oncor’s territory in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market, the project features 100MW under a PPA with an investment-grade off-taker.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy-owned utility PacifiCorp’s 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for Utah shows that the company has a PPA for the Faraday BESS project.
PacifiCorp also has a PPA for the Faraday solar PV project. In 2023, renewable energy financier Excelsior Energy Capital closed US$1.3 billion in financing for the Faraday solar project.
Lydian made its official launch in 2024, with backing from Excelsior, which remains its owner. It announced the AC Ranch 1 as part of its nine-project portfolio. At that time, both AC Rach 1 and AC Ranch 2 were in the pre-construction phase.
In July 2025, Lydian closed a US$233 million project financing for three BESS projects in Texas.
The projects included the 150MW/391MWh Headcamp BESS, the 200MW/521MWh Crane BESS and the 200MW/521MWh Pintail BESS.
Speaking with Energy-Storage.news at the time, Emre Ersenkal, CEO of Lydian Energy, said that lithium-ion battery manufacturer CATL would supply the BESS for the projects.
That said, in December 2024, parent company Excelsior signed a 7.5GWh supply deal with LG Energy Solution (LG ES) for domestic content-qualifying BESS, with LG ES having since started manufacturing LFP cells across 17GWh of US production lines.
Currently, Lydian claims to have a portfolio of 18 solar and storage projects totalling 4.4 GW of capacity.
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