Canadian Shield Capital

Canadian Shield Capital is a long-term private equity and growth capital investor focused on identifying and leveraging long-term demographic, social, and macroeconomic trends. Canadian Shield Capital serves as Hatch's investment arm and favours businesses with strong, capable, collaborative leadership where there is the potential to draw upon and benefit from Hatch’s extensive industry expertise and strong client relationships. We support our partners with capital and expertise to build networks, improve processes, implement new technologies, refinance, and adapt to changing market dynamics.

Andrew W. Dunn

Founder and Managing Partner

Marka Okrutny

Vice President

Julie Ward

Partner

2 past transactions

ORPC, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
ORPC power systems generate baseload renewable electricity from rivers and tidal streams without impounding or restricting the flow of water in any way. ORPC’s RivGen® Power System is in its fourth year of operation in the remote community of Igiugig, Alaska. When this project is completed in 2023, ORPC power systems will combine with battery storage and a smart microgrid controller to form Igiugig’s local microgrid, moving the existing diesel generators to a back-up role, and enabling the community to turn off its diesel generators between 60% and 90% of the time. Over 700 million people globally rely on highly-pollutive diesel generators to meet their electricity needs, and an additional billion people do not have access to electricity at all. ORPC’s integrated solution in Igiugig is a replicable model for remote communities around the world. With outreach from over 42 countries about the RivGen Power System, ORPC will deploy its first power systems in Canada and Patagonia, Chile, over the next 12 months. Based in Portland, Maine, ORPC also has offices in Anchorage, Montreal and Dublin, and an affiliate in Punta Arenas, Chile. Its 37-member staff has the capability to handle every aspect of the project development process from site assessment to permitting to installation and post-installation maintenance.

Peak Power

Series A in 2021
Peak Power is a cleantech company founded in 2015 operating in Ontario, New York, New England, and California. Their flagship software, Peak Synergy, provides energy management solutions for commercial real estate and industrial customers by optimizing three core energy assets: battery energy storage systems, grid-interactive buildings, and electric vehicles. Peak Synergy enables customers to minimize operational costs, reduce emissions, and sell energy back to the grid. Peak Power’s software delivers results with innovative projects that take commercial and industrial scale storage systems and electric vehicles into electricity markets. Peak Synergy is deployed in over 13M sq. ft. of real estate, with ~150 MWh of battery and electric vehicle capacity under contract or committed.
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