ZFC Partners — Insights

Where capital, energy and real assets meet.

Perspectives from an operator's seat: how we read the structural shifts reshaping infrastructure across Latin America and Europe, and where disciplined capital builds enduring value. Written for investors, partners and operators.

Energy & Renewables Data Center Infrastructure Industrial Services & EPC Storage & Grid (BESS) Real Asset Strategy
Storage & Grid · Brazil

Brazil's curtailment compensation rule excludes the curtailment that's about to dominate

Oversupply already caused 54% of 2025's curtailment and ONS projects it will reach 96% by 2029, yet the new compensation decree covers only transmission and reliability causes.

Insight · September 2026
Energy & Renewables · Colombia

Colombia's firm energy market just bet on solar doing hydro's job

Reservoirs came within two points of a rationing threshold in 2024. Eighteen months later the reliability charge handed 99% of new firm capacity to solar at $18.2/MWh, a statistical promise priced like a physical guarantee.

Insight · September 2026
Storage & Grid · Peru

Peru's transmission queue is now the binding constraint, not generation

COES holds roughly 20,000 MW of concession-ready generation queued behind a grid that can absorb barely 1,000 MW more, and a line due in 2026 will not clear before 2030.

Insight · September 2026
Energy & Renewables · Mexico

Mexico's private clean-power pipeline depends on CFE's credit

CFE keeps operational control of the plants it buys from and counts their output toward its own legal generation quota. What that means for how lenders should size debt against Mexico's 6,400 MW private target.

Insight · September 2026
Storage & Grid · Chile

Chile's curtailment is a contract problem before it is a grid problem

Curtailment grew by more than the entire increase in solar output. The exposure sits in PPAs priced against irradiance rather than dispatch, and in debt sized on energy the grid declines to take.

Insight · September 2026
Infrastructure · Data Centers

Latin America's data-center boom is, first, a power problem

The compute build-out everyone is pricing depends on something scarcer than chips: firm, affordable, low-carbon power, and the industrial capability to deliver it. That is where the real-asset opportunity sits.

Insight · 2026
Industrial Services

The unglamorous edge: vertical integration in energy infrastructure

What an in-house services and EPC capability does to risk, cost and execution speed across a development pipeline.

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Real Asset Strategy

Permanent capital in emerging markets: owning, not flipping

The case for long-horizon ownership of real assets where institutional coverage is thin and fundamentals are strong.

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