Commercial Funding Partners is a direct lender that finances power generation equipment from $250,000 to $100M+ per project — gas and steam turbines, generators and gensets, switchgear and substations, solar and battery storage, and the balance-of-plant equipment that ties it together. We fund these transactions directly, structuring around the long lead times, staged commissioning, and soft costs that energy projects always carry. Utility-scale, behind-the-meter, prime, standby, and microgrid alike.
Power and energy equipment we finance
Generation assets run for years against a load you can model, which makes them strong candidates to finance rather than buy outright. We structure leases and loans across the plant:
- Gas turbines, steam turbines, and turbine-generator packages
- Diesel and natural-gas generators, gensets, and standby/prime power units
- Solar arrays, inverters, trackers, and combiner equipment
- Battery energy storage systems (BESS) and power-conditioning equipment
- Switchgear, transformers, substations, and distribution equipment
- Cogeneration, CHP, and microgrid systems
- Controls, SCADA, and grid-interconnection equipment
- Balance-of-plant: civil, electrical, and engineering soft costs that come with a real build
New or used, single units to full plants — including the engineering, interconnection, and installation soft costs that a generation project cannot be separated from.
Financing structures for power projects
Energy projects fund in phases, so the financing should too. We match the structure to the asset and the schedule:
- Equipment financing for turbines, generators, and infrastructure you intend to own
- Capital and tax leases matched to your accounting position and the project’s tax credits
- Operating and FMV leases for equipment you may upgrade as technology advances
- Sale-leasebacks that free capital from generation equipment you already own and operate
- Progress-payment and milestone funding for long-lead turbines and staged commissioning, plus soft-cost coverage — the structure behind our power-infrastructure project financing built around soft costs
A turbine ordered today may not commission for many months. We fund progress payments and stage draws to commissioning so capital follows the build instead of forcing payment before the plant produces a kilowatt.
Turbines and generators: lease or buy?
For a turbine or a generator that anchors your operation, leasing usually beats buying outright. A lease keeps the large capital outlay off your balance sheet, matches payments to the years of useful output the unit will deliver, and preserves your cash and credit lines for the rest of the project. Buying makes sense when you intend to own the asset for its full life and the tax position favors depreciation — and a tax lease can capture much of that benefit without the upfront cash. Turbine leasing and generator leasing are core to our lane: we structure both prime and standby power, and we can fund the turbine, the switchgear, and the interconnection in one transaction.
Why a direct lender matters for energy
Power projects are large, multi-vendor, and timing-bound — interconnection windows, PPAs, and seasonal demand do not wait for a broker to shop your file around a network. CFP reviews the project once, in-house, and funds it directly. That is what let us close transactions like $3.5M of power-plant financing in West Virginia, $6M of solar-farm financing scaling renewable infrastructure, and the soft-cost-heavy power-infrastructure project above. A direct lender absorbs the complexity instead of passing it down the chain.
Deal size and timing
Our lane is $250,000 to $100M+ per project — the range where turbine packages, utility-scale solar, and battery storage projects actually live. Small-ticket lenders cannot fund a generation asset, and large project-finance desks can be slow and rigid. CFP sits in between with the speed of a direct lender and the capacity for a real energy build.
Energy timing is unforgiving: interconnection queues, PPA milestones, and equipment lead times set the clock, not the lender. Because we underwrite in-house, funding can track that schedule — staged to delivery and commissioning so capital is in place when each milestone hits. The pacing depends on the structure and documentation, not on how many parties have to sign off.
Recently funded power and energy transactions
We publish what we fund. These documented transactions show the structures above in practice:
- $3.5M of power-plant financing in West Virginia
- $6M of solar-farm financing scaling renewable infrastructure
- Power-infrastructure project financing built around soft costs — engineering and balance-of-plant wrapped into the structure
- $2.3M of renewable-energy financing tied to transportation and warehouse infrastructure
Browse the full funded-transactions index for the complete record of how CFP structures energy deals.
Who we serve
We finance independent power producers, utilities and co-ops, renewable developers, data centers and industrial operators building prime or backup power, EPC firms, and the equipment dealers who supply them through vendor financing programs. Our lane is established operators and developers funding generation, storage, or grid equipment that needs to be built, expanded, or modernized — see our broader power generation industry practice.
What to have ready
Energy deals underwrite faster when the project is documented. The pieces that move a power-equipment transaction are the equipment specifications and vendor quotes, the project schedule with interconnection and commissioning milestones, the offtake or PPA terms if there is one, and recent financials for the operating entity. Soft costs — engineering, civil, electrical, interconnection — should be itemized so they can be wrapped into the structure rather than left to scramble for separately. With those in hand, we can size the structure to the asset and stage funding to the build. Bring the project; we will fit the financing to it.
Power generation equipment financing FAQs
Do you finance turbines and generators specifically?
Yes. Gas and steam turbines, turbine-generator packages, and diesel/natural-gas generators are squarely in our lane, from $250,000 to $100M+ per project, for both prime and standby applications.
Can you fund a project in stages as it is built?
Yes. We fund progress payments and stage draws to commissioning milestones, with soft costs included, so financing tracks long lead times and staged construction rather than requiring full payment up front.
Do you finance solar and battery storage?
Yes. Solar arrays, inverters, and battery energy storage systems underwrite here, and the structure can be matched to the project’s tax credits and accounting treatment.
Are you a broker or a direct lender?
A direct lender. CFP structures and funds power and energy transactions itself, backed by institutional funding relationships — no broker hand-off and no third party at closing.
Generation equipment is exactly the ticket size where tax treatment moves the economics — run it through the Section 179 calculator with your CPA.
Building or expanding generation capacity? Call (801) 545-4000 or request a quote — and browse the complete funded-transactions index to see how CFP structures energy deals in practice.