Enery secures $534m in green financing for Romanian hybrid energy project

Enery has finalised €460m ($534m) successful syndicated greenish task financing with a consortium of 7 banking groups to money the operation of the Ogrezeni hybrid vigor installation successful Giurgiu County, Romania.

The task volition integrate photovoltaic (PV) procreation with artillery vigor retention and person an installed capableness of 761MW-peak/534MW-alternating current, on with much than a gigawatt-hour of artillery storage.

It aims to present capable renewable energy for astir 684,000 households annually portion reducing c dioxide emissions by astir 303,000t per twelvemonth erstwhile operational.

The backing statement includes a revolving facility, word indebtedness facilities, VAT and ancillary facilities, and an accordion diagnostic valued astatine up to €79m for imaginable enlargement of artillery retention capacity.

UniCredit acted arsenic planetary and sustainability coordinator and bookrunner.

Intesa Sanpaolo Group served arsenic mandated pb arranger and bookrunner. ING Bank and its Romanian subsidiary besides participated arsenic mandated pb arranger and installation and information agent.

Banca Transilvania and the National Bank of Greece (Cyprus) contributed arsenic mandated pb arrangers, portion Exim Banca Românească and Alpha Bank took connected roles arsenic pb arrangers.

Enery structured this transaction nether its caller Sustainable Financing Framework, which aligns with International Capital Market Association Green Bond Principles, Green Loan Principles, Social Loan Principles, EU Taxonomy Regulation and related marketplace standards.

Sustainable Fitch provided a 2nd enactment sentiment confirming the framework’s alignment with these criteria.

Enery COO Lukas Nemec and CEO Richard König said: “Securing this financing is simply a large measurement successful Enery’s maturation travel and a wide ballot of assurance successful our quality to present complex, future-proof renewable vigor infrastructure astatine scale.

“With our Sustainable Financing Framework present successful place, we are strengthening the instauration for semipermanent improvement crossed the CEE [central and eastbound Euope] portion and accelerating the modulation to a much resilient, low-carbon vigor system.”

Sustain LCM Finance acted arsenic indebtedness syndication advisor for Enery.

Schönherr advised the borrower connected ineligible matters, portion Clifford Chance Badea provided ineligible counsel to the lending banks.

The improvement forms portion of Enery’s ongoing practice with the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund, an EU-focused infrastructure money investing successful energy, transport and integer projects crossed CEE.

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