MIDIS finances £21.5m Welsh solar power project
Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS), has financed a 29MW ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) project. With more than 113,000 solar panels, it is one of the largest solar projects in the UK to date, according to the firm.
The £21.5m ($33.2m) facility is split into index-linked and fixed-rate tranches. It will provide the project’s sponsors, Quercus Assets Selection, the renewable energy infrastructure asset manager, with a 19 year financing, spanning both the construction and operational periods.
“Increasingly, UK and European sponsors and developers of renewable energy projects, require innovative solutions to address their financing requirements. We worked closely with Quercus to understand their business needs, the construction risk and long dated maturity profile and look forward to rolling out this solution to other projects in their pipeline,” said Kit Hamilton, senior vice president, MIDIS.The project is located across 56 hectares in Pembrokeshire, Wales and benefits from a 15 year power purchase arrangement with Norwegian utility, Statkraft.
“We required a financing structure to see us through construction completion and into operations," said Diego Biasi, manager, Quercus. "
MIDIS invests in infrastructure debt for a range of global institutional investors. In December 2014 it announced it had raised total commitments of £979m for its UK inflation linked debt strategy, which includes separately managed accounts and a pooled fund.
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