Kai Rintala

Kai has been Managing Director of Taaleri Energia since 2016 and has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure. He has built Taaleri Energia into one of Europe's leading value-add renewable infrastructure platforms, with approximately EUR 1.4 billion in assets under management, a 60-person specialist team, and more than 60 utility-scale wind, solar, battery storage and hybrid projects across Europe. Over the past 18 months, he has led the deployment of the EUR 630 million SolarWind III Fund, with a particular focus on battery storage and hybrid projects in Eastern Europe and the Baltics.

Previously, Kai spent 10 years at KPMG in Helsinki and London, where he built and led KPMG Finland's infrastructure business and executed 900 MW of wind transactions. He holds a PhD in Construction Economics from UCL and an MSc from Tampere University of Technology.

Taaleri Energia

Taaleri Energia is a Helsinki-headquartered renewable energy fund manager with EUR 1.4 billion of assets under management and one of Europe's largest dedicated renewable energy investment teams.

The Taaleri SolarWind IV Hybrid Power Fund is Taaleri Energia's seventh renewable energy fund. The Fund pursues a value-add strategy, investing across the full project lifecycle by acquiring, developing, contracting, constructing, operating and exiting a diversified portfolio of utility-scale onshore wind, solar PV and battery energy storage system (BESS) assets.

The Fund seeks to capture development value and deploy Ready-to-Build capital into markets offering the most attractive combination of power prices, renewable capture rates and battery storage revenue opportunities driven by market volatility.

The Fund targets a gross IRR of at least 15%.