Energy & Infrastructure
Energy & Infrastructure
Supporting grid connections, generation and infrastructure projects where large sums must be committed years before they are earned.
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Challenges
Where money is at risk in energy & infrastructure
The defining risk in this sector is duration. A commitment made at offer acceptance may not resolve for five years or more, and over that period counterparties are restructured, personnel change and project companies are bought and sold. A payment right that depended on the continuing cooperation of a particular party can be materially harder to enforce by the time it matters.
Holding the money on the developer's own balance sheet leaves it exposed to that developer's insolvency and to the general claims of its creditors, and leaves it available to be spent on something else under commercial pressure. Paying it across to the counterparty instead removes the developer's protection entirely, against an event that may never occur.
Project structures compound both problems. Special purpose vehicles, joint ventures and offshore holding arrangements are the norm, and they make the initial structuring of funds considerably more important than the eventual enforcement route.
How we help
Escrow & Managed Payments
Energy & Infrastructure Escrow
Escrow is used where a sum must be committed against a future event. Grid connection commitment fees are the clearest current example: the money is returnable if the project energises and payable to the network operator if it terminates, and escrow is the mechanism that lets both outcomes be honoured without either party holding the funds in the meantime.
It is equally used for decommissioning and restoration obligations, where a regulator, landowner or counterparty requires cash-backed security for work that will not be carried out for many years. Held cash provides direct protection without the claims uncertainty of a bond or guarantee.
Escrow also supports the transactional side of the sector (asset sales, retention of consideration pending regulatory consent, and deposits held to demonstrate that a bidder is financially committed before an asset is taken off the market).
Infrastructure Payment
Third-party managed accounts suit the construction and operational phases, where the emphasis moves from securing a future event to administering a stream of payments. A single ring-fenced pool can fund contractors, consultants and suppliers across a scheme, with clear oversight of what has been drawn and what remains.
They are particularly useful where several parties fund a project jointly and each needs assurance that its contribution is applied to the agreed scope rather than absorbed into a developer's wider working capital.
Because the account sits outside any one participant's banking arrangements, the payment mechanism survives changes of ownership, contractor or adviser over a long build programme.
How it works
From enquiry to release
- 01
Tell us about the transaction
We confirm the structure and the release conditions, and send a quote.
- 02
Parties onboarded
Identity and sanctions checks on every party, run in parallel.
- 03
Funds deposited
Segregated on receipt, with the balance visible to every party.
- 04
Released on instruction
Paid out when the agreed condition or instruction arrives.
Why dospay
An independent, regulated third-party
No existing relationship required
No minimum balances and no pre-existing banking relationship required to open an account.
Priced specifically for your requirements
A figure reflecting the nuance of your proposed account, its flows, duration, complexity and risk.
Terms that follow your contract
Release conditions mirror what you have already agreed.
Transparency
Every party has access to our digital accounts portals to get the same view of the money we are holding.
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Energy and infrastructure projects commit money long before they earn it. A grid connection, a generation asset or a major infrastructure scheme can require very large sums to be secured at the point an offer is accepted, then held for the whole of a development period measured in years rather than months.
The obligations attached to those sums are rarely simple. Commitment fees, connection securities, decommissioning provisions and staged construction payments each depend on events that sit outside any one party's control (a planning decision, an energisation date, a regulatory determination). The money must be demonstrably committed, but it should not be spent until the event that justifies payment has actually happened.
Escrow accounts and third-party managed payment accounts give that period a structure. Funds are held independently and released against conditions the parties agree in advance, without disturbing the connection agreement, the construction contract or the regulatory framework underneath.
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