Muehlhan Wind Service acquires a controlling interest in Portugal's Endiprev to create a global front runner in wind installation and maintenance services. Energy Capital Partners raises over $4.4 billion for its latest fund focused on power generation, renewables, and decarbonization infrastructure. FiberLine Composites is moving all production from Denmark to India over competition from Chinese manufacturers, while also working on domesticating some production in the U.S. to take advantage of tax credits.

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Danish company Muehlhan Wind Service has acquired a controlling interest in Endiprev, a Portugal based company specializing in commissioning and electrical work for the wind industry. This acquisition aims to create a global front runner in wind installation and maintenance services. Endiprev will continue to operate under its existing brand with current executive management team remaining in place.

Muehlhan has expanded significantly over the past seven years and has acquired several companies in the last 18 months. And Phil, this seems to be the trend in any sort of repair, maintenance company is to acquire, acquire, acquire.

Philip Totaro: At this point, yes, Allen. And it's interesting because we've talked over the past, six to 12 months about Any number of different deals where companies have either kind of merged together an EPC contracting capability with maintenance services or maintenance providers getting together in some cases, maintenance providers acquiring supply chain, smaller, tier three or four supply chain companies as well.

So, I mean, this is, it's starting to get serious. We've talked on the show before about, the increased need for maintenance services, quality of maintenance services, et cetera. And this puts Muehlhan and, and Endiprev in in a really great position globally.

Joel Saxum: Yeah. So if you aren't familiar with kind of what this business model looks like as it expands is Endiprev being a basically front end commissioning services company, they do a lot of build outs.

They do electrical work of these things. Muehlhan has been Classically a more of a maintenance company. So now what you do is you come in on the front end of a project, you help build it or you build it as the EPC is the front runner there. And then when that project switches over to commissioning, which normally you would walk away.

Now you just back your other players in there and you've already got built in work for the maintenance and operation side of things. So it's a great tie up and you're going to start to see a lot more of these as well.

Allen Hall: Energy Capital Partners, an investor in power transition, electrification, and decarbonization infrastructure assets, has raised over 4.

4 billion for its fifth flagship equity strategy, ECP5, or better called Fund 5. The fund exceeds its initial target by 10 percent and also raised an additional 2. 3 billion in co investment capital. Fund 5 will continue Energy Capital Partners i...