PETALING JAYA: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has completed the acquisition of the balance 20% interest in two UK renewable energy (RE) companies GVO Wind Limited and Bluemerang Capital Limited for GBP18.6 million (RM99.85 million).
This purchase was done through its wholly owned subsidiary Tenaga Wind Ventures UK Ltd.
The utility giant said the acquisition will give the group 100% asset ownership and control over the acquired companies and its assets.
The combined platform makes up the largest feed-in tariff wind portfolio in the UK, comprising 53 operational onshore medium wind turbines with a total combined capacity of 26.1MW.
The deal was as initially agreed in the share purchase agreements (SPAs) with sellers Georg von Opel and Tanzanite BV & Catalin Breaban entered on February 2018.
“TNB has actively managed the wind farm assets since its acquisition in 2018. The assets have performed positively, contributing RM76 million (GBP14.4 million) earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) in 2019. The assets have shown tremendous growth from 62% ebitda margin at acquisition to 74% ebitda margin in 2019,“ TNB said in a stock exchange filing.
TNB had in February 2018 acquired an 80% interest in the companies for GBP77.37 million through two SPAs with the sellers respectively.
At 2.31pm, the counter gained 4 sen to RM12.54 on 1.39 million shares done.
