Riverstone SPACs Bet Renewable Energy Will Pay Off This Time: Report

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Riverstone Holdings rode the shale boom to big profits, The Wall Street Journal reports. Now the New York investment firm is betting on technologies that would cut demand for fossil fuels, hoping for better results than its earlier push into renewables.

Investors have handed Riverstone four blank checks totaling nearly $1.3 billion to acquire businesses that “advance the objectives of global decarbonization.” The last time investors gave Riverstone so much money to make clean-energy deals, some barely broke even, while others lost roughly 90%, according to public pension data.

Riverstone is best known for its energy-focused private-equity funds. For its green efforts, the firm is using SPACs. Read more

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