Investment · Development · Operations
BridgePower brings capital and delivery together to help data centres begin operating ahead of grid availability. The value we deliver is time: earlier access to power enables earlier operations and revenue. We develop and manage integrated energy platforms, with dependable power at their core and high-purity captured CO₂ for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producers offering a complementary route to market alongside heat recovery.
Explore our approachIntroducing BridgePower
A collaboration between Aquila Group and Solanity, BridgePower combines investment and asset management expertise with specialist experience in energy infrastructure development and operations. This partnership connects capital with practical delivery capability in one platform, supporting projects from investment and development through to long-term operation.
BridgePower is an integrated investment and management business focused on energy infrastructure. We bring together capital, project development and operational expertise to build a scalable European platform. By accelerating access to power, we aim to help data-centre developers unlock earlier operations and revenue, while creating long-term value from the energy assets that enable them.
Our model spans four connected roles: Investment Management, Development Management, Asset Management and Platform Management. Together, these connect the fund’s investment strategy with the development, operation and growth of its platforms.
Our primary focus is co-located Energy Hubs that provide reliable power to data centres, with post-combustion carbon capture and heat recovery creating complementary routes to market. We assess power demand and eligible CO₂ offtake together to build an integrated investment case.
Power generation
Indicative waits in constrained markets
From investment commitment to operation
IT-load demand: 2023 to 2030 forecast
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Data-centre growth is putting pressure on electricity networks in key development locations. Where grid reinforcement and new generation take longer than campus delivery, access to dependable power can constrain investment and delay revenue. In constrained markets, grid connection waits can span 7–13 years. Ember’s 2025 research identifies lengthy queues in Europe’s established data-centre hubs, with some projects facing delays of up to 13 years.
BridgePower aims to deliver dependable power in 18–24 months from investment commitment to operation, helping data centres bring capacity online sooner and unlock earlier revenue.
An indicative comparison, rather than a like-for-like project forecast: grid waiting times vary by location, network capacity and connection arrangements. Our delivery aim is subject to site readiness, planning and permits, equipment availability, fuel supply and agreed customer requirements.
Governments and network operators are placing greater emphasis on developers contributing additional power capacity. Ireland’s connection policy requires new data centres to provide onsite or nearby generation and/or storage matching requested maximum import capacity, alongside additional renewable electricity commitments. In the United States, the US Ratepayer Protection Pledge commits participating technology companies to build, bring or buy new generation resources and cover related costs.
In Norway, Storting Resolution 717 of 6 June 2024 called on the Government to develop requirements for new data centres covering waste-heat utilisation, their own energy generation and energy storage where suitable. This emphasis on developers contributing energy capacity and recovering heat aligns with BridgePower’s integrated Energy Hub approach.
These are distinct national approaches, rather than a universal requirement for every data centre to own a power plant. Connection conditions, emissions limits and operating arrangements remain location-specific.
For BridgePower, the opportunity is to align dedicated generation with credible campus demand, supported by long-term power agreements. Co-located Energy Hubs can offer an alternative route to power where viable, with investment assessed against permits, fuel supply, customer credit, reliability and net electricity delivered.
Carbon capture and utilisation
Post-combustion capture separates CO₂ from generation exhaust. Purification and conditioning can turn this stream into a product for suitable markets, creating a potential revenue source alongside electricity and usable heat.
Aviation’s decarbonisation ambitions and rising fuel mandates are creating a long-term market for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). ReFuelEU Aviation requires fuel suppliers at covered EU airports to increase the SAF share of aviation fuel. Its dedicated synthetic-fuel requirement supports demand for fuels made using renewable hydrogen and eligible captured CO₂.
The minimum SAF share of aviation fuel supplied at covered EU airports rises from 2% in 2025 to 6% in 2030, 34% in 2040 and 70% in 2050, with a growing synthetic-fuel requirement creating a long-term market for eligible captured CO₂.
Using the 32.1 million tonnes of aviation fuel reported by suppliers in EASA’s 2024 baseline as a constant illustrative volume, the mandated synthetic-fuel shares imply around 1.2 million tonnes of CO₂ a year in 2030–31, 5 million tonnes in 2035 and 35 million tonnes in 2050.
These are carbon-balance illustrations, not demand forecasts: fuel volume × synthetic share × approximately 3.14 tonnes of CO₂ per tonne of hydrocarbon fuel (44/14, using a CH₂ approximation). They exclude process losses and co-products; actual plant requirements can be higher. The historical baseline covers reports from 67% of suppliers and is not a complete EU market total. This CO₂ requirement relates to synthetic fuel, not all SAF. Feedstock eligibility and lifecycle criteria must be met.
We are developing partnerships with SAF producers, exploring how purified CO₂ from Energy Hubs can become a feedstock for synthetic aviation fuel. Commercial value depends on the production process, eligible carbon sources, logistics and the wider supply chain.
Captured CO₂ utilisation sits alongside our longer-term approach to lower-carbon fuels and energy production. Diversified offtake can strengthen project income, with eligibility, delivery costs and contracted demand assessed before revenues enter the investment case.
Structuring investment in energy platforms serving data centres. Bringing together institutional capital and project finance, with power demand, SAF offtake opportunities and heat markets assessed together to shape disciplined investment decisions.
Developing energy hubs around data-centre demand. Coordinating generation, carbon capture, fuel supply and heat recovery, alongside commercial agreements with power customers and prospective SAF offtakers.
Prioritising reliable power and revenue-generating uptime. Managing operations, maintenance and offtake performance across power, CO₂ and heat to support long-term value and control risk.
Managing the platforms and intellectual property behind our investments. Bringing shared leadership, governance and expertise together across energy projects, data-centre relationships and SAF partnerships to support disciplined growth.
The Energy Hub concept
Our Energy Hubs combine on-site power generation with post-combustion carbon capture, supporting data-centre demand while developing additional routes to market for captured CO₂ and recovered heat. Where the location supports it, renewable power and heat-to-steam or power recovery can complement this core concept. Our circular economy approach aims to reuse resources, reduce waste and operating costs, and create additional revenue opportunities.
Explore the Energy Hub concept →Investors
BridgePower is building an integrated European energy infrastructure platform to address a critical constraint on data-centre growth: the time it takes to secure dependable power. Our investment proposition connects institutional capital with the development and operation of Energy Hubs that can bring campuses online ahead of grid availability.
Long-term power agreements form the core investment case. Captured CO₂ offers a complementary contracted revenue opportunity, including eligible feedstock for synthetic SAF. Heat recovery can reduce operating costs, with heat sales providing additional upside where offtake is secured. These routes are assessed on their own technical, commercial and regulatory merits.
We also consider how each asset can continue creating value when grid capacity becomes available, through continued supply, backup and balancing services or redeployment where feasible.
We welcome enquiries from institutional investors and investment partners. Contact us to discuss the platform strategy, development pipeline and investment approach, and to request further information.
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