Published: 3 Dec 2021, 12:53
Octopus Renewable Infrastructure Trust is looking at assets in the UK, as well as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Finland. Image: ORIT.
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has raised aggregate gross proceeds of approximately £73.9 million from its placing and REX retail offer. Net proceeds of this are approximately £72.4 million.
This was raised through 70,000,000 new ordinary shares at the issue price of 105.5p per share, of which 65,348,534 shares will be issued pursuant to the placing and 4,651,466 shares will be issued pursuant to the REX retail offer.
The share placing raised approximately £69 million, while the REX offer raised a further £4.9 million.
“We are delighted to announce this successful and oversubscribed fundraise, raising £73.9 million to invest in renewable energy assets to further diversify our portfolio as we support the energy transition,” said Phil Austin, chairman of Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust plc.
“I would like to thank our shareholders for the continued support over the last two years, which allows our Investment Manager to continue to pursue compelling opportunities and build on our high quality, diversified portfolio. The Board looks forward to updating shareholders in due course on the progress made deploying the capital across the considerable pipeline of opportunities.”
ORIT announced the raise on 22 November, with a view to expand its renewables pipeline. It has fully committed the £100 million proceeds of its oversubscribed July 2021 fundraising. Following on from that raise, the company acquired five Irish solar sites with an expected combined capacity of up to 250MW for a total consideration of £119 million to £125 million.