Natura Resources Acquires Shepherd Power; NOV Becomes Strategic Partner and Investor

Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. Merges with NuScale Power to Create Public SMR Company

May 2, 2022

Energy

NuScale Power completed a business combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp., becoming a publicly traded company (NYSE: SMR) and receiving approximately $380 million in gross proceeds, including $235 million from PIPE investors. The transaction provides capital to accelerate commercialization of NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR) technology and includes participation from strategic and financial investors such as DS Private Equity, Nucor, SailingStone Capital Partners, Samsung C&T, Segra Capital Management and Pearl Energy Investment Management.

Kinder Morgan Acquires North American Natural Resources

August 11, 2022

Energy

Kinder Morgan, Inc. has closed the $135 million acquisition of North American Natural Resources, Inc. and its sister companies North American Biofuels, LLC and North American-Central, LLC, acquiring seven landfill gas-to-power facilities in Michigan and Kentucky. Kinder Morgan will evaluate converting up to four sites to renewable natural gas (RNG) with approximately $175 million of capital spend, expanding its RNG generation capacity and diversifying its renewables portfolio.

Select Energy Services Acquires Nuverra Environmental Solutions

February 23, 2022

Energy

Select Energy Services (NYSE:WTTR) completed the acquisition of Nuverra Environmental Solutions (NYSE American: NES) in February 2022, issuing 0.2551 shares of Select Class A common stock for each Nuverra share and converting Nuverra warrants into Select warrants. The deal brings Nuverra’s pipelines, disposal wells and landfill operations (and more than 350 employees) into Select’s water services platform, expanding its disposal capacity, geographic footprint (Bakken, Haynesville, Northeast) and production-related service offerings.

Energy Vault Completes Business Combination with Novus Capital Corporation II

February 14, 2022

Energy

Energy Vault Holdings, Inc. completed a business combination with Novus Capital Corporation II and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NRGV) on February 14, 2022. The transaction provided approximately $235 million in gross proceeds (plus prior Series C and a $50M licensing fee from Atlas Renewable) to fund commercialization of the company’s grid-scale energy storage technologies and energy management software.

Novus Capital II Completes SPAC Combination with Energy Vault

February 11, 2022

Energy

Novus Capital Corporation II completed its business combination with Energy Vault, creating Energy Vault Holdings, Inc. and providing approximately $235 million of gross proceeds plus an expanded PIPE to fund commercial scale-up. The combined company will trade on the NYSE under ticker NRGV and will use the proceeds and strategic partnerships (including Korea Zinc and Atlas Renewable) to scale its gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage technology and energy management software globally.

BlackRock Real Assets Acquires National Renewable Solutions

August 18, 2021

Energy

BlackRock Real Assets has acquired 100% of National Renewable Solutions (NRS), a Minneapolis-based developer of utility-scale wind and solar projects, to accelerate development and ownership of NRS’s project pipeline of more than 3.5 GW across the Western United States. Terms were not disclosed; the deal pairs NRS’s on-the-ground development expertise and >1 GW of developed projects with BlackRock’s capital markets capabilities and global renewable power platform.