August 13, 2025 CONSENT TO CAL MICRO ACQUISITION AND SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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August 13, 2025
CONSENT TO CAL MICRO ACQUISITION
AND SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Reference is made to that certain Note Purchase Agreement dated as of December 7, 2023 (as so amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Note Purchase Agreement”), among Capstone Green Energy LLC (as “Company”), Capstone Green Energy Holdings, Inc. and Capstone Turbine Financial Services, LLC (as “Guarantors”), various purchasers, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Specialty Lending Group, L.P. (as “Collateral Agent”). Capitalized terms used but not defined in this consent and amendment to the Note Purchase Agreement (this “Consent and Second Amendment”) shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Note Purchase Agreement.
WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, Capstone Distributor Support Services Corporation (the “Purchaser”) is the sole Purchaser under the Note Purchase Agreement;
WHERAS, as of the date hereof, Purchaser is also the sole Preferred Member of the Company (as defined in that certain Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement dated December 7, 2023, among the Company and its members (the “LLC Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Company has requested Purchaser’s consent (“Cal Micro Consent”), in accordance with Section 4.06(a)(xi) of the LLC Agreement, to its acquisition of Cal Microturbine, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. (“Cal Micro,” and such acquisition, the “Cal Micro Acquisition”), and Purchaser’s waiver (the “Purchase Agreement Waiver”) of certain terms of the Note Purchase Agreement in accordance with Section 10.5(a) of the Note Purchase Agreement in connection with the Cal Micro Acquisition.
WHEREAS, to induce the Purchaser to provide the Cal Micro Consent and the Purchase Agreement Waiver, the Note Parties, the Collateral Agent and the Purchaser (each a “Party” and collectively, the “Parties”) have agreed to amend certain terms and conditions of the Note Purchase Agreement as set forth herein;
WHEREAS, the Purchaser, executing this Consent and Second Amendment is willing to provide the Cal Micro Consent and Purchase Agreement Waiver subject to the terms and conditions herein, and representations made by the Company below;
NOW WHEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
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“Cannabis Laws” means (i) the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq) related to cannabis, including cannabis that meets the definition of “marihuana” or “marijuana” under 21 U.S.C. § 802(16), and all rules, regulations, and orders related thereto; and (ii) all other federal, state and local applicable laws, statutes, rules, and regulations concerning cannabis in all jurisdictions in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate.
“Consent and Second Amendment” means that certain Consent and Second Amendment to the Note Purchase Agreement dated August 13, 2025, among Capstone Distributor Support Services Corporation, the Collateral Agent and the Note Parties, regarding the Company’s acquisition of Cal Microturbine, Inc.
Restricted Junior Payments. No Note Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries through any manner or means or through any other Person to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart, or agree to declare, order, pay, make or set apart, any sum for any Restricted Junior Payment except that (a) any Subsidiary of Company may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions to Company or any Note Party that is a Wholly-Owned Guarantor Subsidiary, and, subject to Section 5.14(c) herein, the Company may make any Deferred Payment (as defined in the Consent and Second Amendment), (b) to the extent the Company is treated as a partnership or disregarded entity for United States federal income tax purposes, cash distributions by the Company and its Subsidiaries to their direct or indirect equity holders, at the time and to the extent required to make tax distributions under Section 7.03 of the Company LLCA, as in effect on the date of this Agreement, or as otherwise amended with the Collateral Agent’s consent.
Miscellaneous Covenants. Unless otherwise consented to by Requisite Purchasers, each of Holdings and Company will and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to: (a) maintain entity records and books of account separate from those of any other entity that is an Affiliate of such entity; (b) not commingle its funds or assets with those of any other entity that is an Affiliate of such entity, in each case, other than an Affiliate that is a Subsidiary of Company; (c) the Company shall ensure that the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PO Receivable remains validly owed and collectible by Cal Micro without any right of setoff until it is paid in Cash in full; (d) the Company shall fully and finally collect payment on the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PO Receivable (as defined in the Consent and Second Amendment) in an amount not less than $4.6 million (paid in Cash without any setoff) on or before December 15, 2025; provided, however, to the extent an amount greater than or equal to $2,000,000 is collected on the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PO Receivable by the Note Parties on or prior to October 15, 2025, the date on which the remaining amount shall be required to be fully and finally collected hereunder shall be automatically extended from December 15, 2025 to February 15, 2026 without any further deed or action; (e) no Note Party or its Subsidiaries shall make or pay any Deferred Payment (as defined in the Consent and Second Amendment) unless such Note Party and its
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Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance with all covenants of such Note Party and its Subsidiaries under this Note Purchase Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the financial covenants embodied in Section 6.8) (in each case, taking into account any grace or cure periods applicable thereto); (f) the Note Parties and their Subsidiaries shall not violate any applicable Cannabis Laws through the distribution, sale, lease, use and/or servicing of their products; and (g) no later than 24 hours of the closing of the Cal Micro Acquisition (as defined in the Consent and Second Amendment), the Company shall (i) cause the assignment of certain identified contracts (such contracts that have been provided to the Collateral Agent prior to the closing of the Cal Micro Acquisition, the “Identified Contracts”) to an alternative distributor and (ii) deliver to the Collateral Agent evidence of the assignment of the Identified Contracts.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Consent and Second Amendment as of the date first written above.
Capstone Distributor Support Services Corporation, as Purchaser By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ |
and Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Consent and Second Amendment as of the date first written above.
Capstone Green Energy Holdings, Inc. By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ |
Capstone Green Energy LLC By: :/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ |
Capstone Turbine Financial Services, LLC By: :/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ |
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