a Panoramic viewpoint

Franklin Park is an international  infrastructure company. Our diverse portfolio of infrastructure businesses enables our panoramic viewpoint.

Renewable and conventional power generation

Logistics and transportation

Utilities

Fuel refining, distribution, and storage

Higher education

New technologies

300,000 bpd refinery

Waste to Energy

Renewable Ethanol Fuel

energy efficiency and solar

Municipal solid waste → Puerto Rico

oil terminal → UAE

7,000 student medical school system

IPP Fund

logistics

solar

energy storage

Hydrogen Fuel cells

Franklin Park Timeline

2000

Franklin Park founded

Franklin Park founded by Tom Tribone with controlling interest in Cemig (NYSE: CIG), Brazil’s largest utility.

2003

Franklin Park forms Guggenheim Global Infrastructure

Franklin Park forms Guggenheim Global Infrastructure Company with Guggenheim Capital (a $260B financial firm).

2003–2013

Guggenheim Global Infrastructure grows globally

Guggenheim Global Infrastructure grows its business globally in the US, India, China, and Latin America through various private and public vehicles.

2013

Guggenheim Global Infrastructure sold

Exclusivity ends with Guggenheim.

2014–2020

Franklin Park builds several new businesses

Investments in utilities, renewables, and IPP fund start-up

2020

Utility scale energy storage and community solar businesses

Franklin Park enters utility scale energy storage and community solar businesses, Plus Power and New Columbia Solar.

2021–Today

Building our portfolio of infrastructure businesses

Franklin Park makes infrastructure investments ranging from sugar-cane based ethanol production to waste management.

2022–Today

Franklin Park portfolio expands to new technologies

Franklin Park portfolio expands to new technologies such as hydrogen, fuel cell, and waste to energy with Aries, BluePath, and FuelCellEnergy.

We have a history of identifying high-value opportunities that escape conventional notice—a capability Robert Waterman Jr., author of In Search of Excellence, characterized as being "Informed Opportunists." Below are some of our "firsts."

First significant IPP in the US, led the first AES Corporation projects and began the IPP industry

First project-financed, large-scale unregulated energy projects in the US. This commercial structure underlies today’s renewable energy sector

First privatization of utilities after the restoration of democracy in Brazil and Argentina

First international gas pipeline between Brazil and Argentina

First acquisitions of US utilities by an unregulated, non-utility company

First independent power producer in Mexico

First large private power plant in Puerto Rico

First US listed (NASDAQ) Chinese power company

First road construction using asphalt rubber technology in China

First insurance policies for Renewable Natural gas and Hydrogen tax credits following the us Inflation Reduction Act