Data

Subscribers to Clean Energy Pipeline’s data services receive access to our searchable financial transaction databases and directories of clean energy projects and organisations. These are updated in real time and managed by a dedicated team of data analysts. All data is inputted, verified and validated internally.

The datasets provide users with indispensable insight and data for a range of purposes from strategic planning and market & competitive analysis to target identification for business development and investment trend analysis.

Clean Energy Pipeline’s online searchable deal databases cover the following transactions:

Green Bonds – Issuances of debt securities for green and sustainability purposes.
Project Finance – Debt, equity and government funding of renewable energy projects, manufacturing plants, infrastructure, carbon capture and storage projects as well as information on owners, developers, equipment supplier, power purchasers, and legal/financial/technical advisers.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) – Corporate and private equity M&A transactions, including detailed valuation metrics produced in-house by our data team.
Equity Capital Markets – investments from angel funding, venture capital, private equity to IPO, follow-on public offering and convertible note issuance.

Key facts

We continuously update and grow our database with new organisations, projects and financial transactions. By 2020, our datasets now comprise:

10,000+ M&A Transactions Since 2007	$3 TRILLION Project Finance Investments since 2007	$1 TRILLION Green Bond Issuances Since 2007
15,000+ Equity Capital Markets Deals Since 2007	30,000+ Clean Energy Projects across 150+ Countries	38,000+ Organisations Active in the Clean Energy Sector

Source of information

Financial transactions and project announcements/updates are tracked from various sources of information such as press releases, deal announcements, annual & quarterly reports, prospectuses and deal submissions emailed directly to us by corporates, investors and advisers.

Data submission & feedback

Clean Energy Pipeline encourages corporates, project sponsors, law firms, financial advisers, technical consultants, equity investors and debt providers to submit deal activity to our deal data team on a regular basis.

We also take every care to ensure that the data on Clean Energy Pipeline is accurate; however, if you spot an inaccuracy please contact us.

All data submission and feedback emails should be sent to [email protected].

Clean energy sectors

Clean Energy Pipeline tracks investment and financing activities in the following clean energy sectors:

AI / Blockchain / IoT
Biofuels (Biodiesel and Ethanol)
Biomass & waste-to-energy (Forestry crops and wood waste; Energy crops; Agricultural residue; Food waste; and Industrial waste)
Emission Control & Carbon Capture & Storage
Energy efficiency (Residential; Commercial & Industrial and Transport Energy Efficiency)
Energy Storage
Environmental Compliance
Environmental Remediation & Safety
Fuel cells
Geothermal
Green hydrogen
Green transportation (Electric vehicles and EV charging solutions)
Grid infrastructure (Smart grid and Transmission lines)
Hydro
Marine (Tidal and Wave)
Recycling & waste treatment
Solar (Solar Photovoltaic and Solar thermal)
Water & waste water treatment
Wind (Onshore wind and Offshore wind)

Organisation type and industry sector taxonomies

Organisations in our database are categorised into one of the following types based on their primary business activity.

Accounting firm
Asset management company
Company (non pure-play clean energy)
Company (pure-play clean energy)
Education / research institution
Family office / foundation
Infrastructure fund manager
Insurance company
Investment / commercial bank
Law firm
Multilateral development bank
National development bank
Non-profit organisation
Pension fund manager
Public sector & government
Sovereign wealth fund
VC / PE fund manager

Clean Energy Pipeline also assigns industry sector to every organisation based on their primary business activity. The industry sector taxonomy is based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®).