Lotus Infrastructure Partners announced that it has raised approximately $1.8 billion at the final closings across Lotus Infrastructure Fund IV investments, future co-investments and a single-asset continuation vehicle, marking the clean energy infrastructure-focused private equity firm’s largest capital raise to date.
Greenwhich, Connecticut-based Lotus specializes in infrastructure investments along the value chain of energy and related sectors as well as other industries that benefit from sustainability and energy transition trends. The firm’s main focus areas include assets that produce and move electrons such as renewable power generation, battery storage, electric transmission, and thermal power with paths to decarbonizing, and molecules such ammonia, hydrogen, renewable diesel, renewable natural gas, sustainable aviation fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, and related midstream and downstream assets.
The company said that Fund IV received support from existing and new institutional investors and will pursue opportunities across energy and related sectors, including power generation and transmission, battery storage, biofuels, and other fuels such as ammonia and methanol.
Himanshu Saxena, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus Infrastructure Partners, said:
“We are grateful for the continued support of our investors and pleased to have completed this capital raise which is the largest in our firm’s history. We are at a pivotal moment in the energy markets with demand for new energy infrastructure at unprecedented levels, driven by AI and rising industrial consumption.”
