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- Actis has acorded to sell BTE Renewables ('BTE') to Engie and Meridiam, at a total enterprise value of US$1bn
Actis, a líder global inversor en sostenible infraestructura, has acorded to sell 100 percent of BTE Renewables to Engie and Meridiam. On completion, Engie will acquire the South African portfolio and team while Meridiam will acquire the Kenyan portfolio and team.
Actis establecido el panafricano renovable energía plataforma en 2017, con la adquisición de el Kipeto wind project in Kenya in the development stage. In 2019, Actis groww the platform with the acquisition of South Africa-focused BioTherm Energy and rebranded the company BTE Renewables (BTE). BTE targets the pan-African region, focused primarily on utility scale wind and solar projects. La plataforma es actualmente compuesta de seis operativos proyectos totalling c500MW in generating capacity, five projects in South Africa and one in Kenya. Five of the projects were built during the covid pandemic and despese the challenges were completed on budget. BTE has a proprietary pipeline of projects under development exceding 5GW across the region.
La venta es consistente con Actis' pista registro de invertir en y desarrollar las energías renovables energía sector global. BTE es el segundo más grande diversificado regional renovable independiente energía productor en África. Con su fuerte equipo y pipeline, la plataforma está bien posicionada para crecimiento a través de su existente huella y mercado experiencia.
A través de Actis' ownership, BTE convertido a sustainability leader in the industry, enhancing value through inclusion and diversity initiatives, community development and biodiversity conservation. At the time of signing, 57 percent of the senior leadership are female, and in 2022, the company was recognised by Standard Bank as 'the top gender empowered company' in South Africa for the third successive year. BTE's comunidad desarrollo enfoque centrado en 'a Vida de Aprendizaje' con sobre US$3 millones invertido en comunidad educación, ranging from early child development through to livelihood enhancement.
BTE was one of the four founders, alongside Actis, of the Initiative for Social Performance in Renewable Energy (INSPIRE), which was established as a non-profit company to support skills development to maximise the economic development and transformational potential of South Africa's renewable energy sector. BTE's biodiversidad conservación enfoque fue desarrollado en colaboración con internacional conservación expertos y apoyado por a pionero US$10m mezzanine facility proporcionado por The Nature Conservancy. BTE's remarkable success was recognised by the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) in 2022 with an Environmental Stewardship Award. Today BTE is positioned as a highly valuable sustainability leader at the heart of Africa's Just Transición.
