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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Pele Green Energy has won R2.5 billion in funding from lenders, including Nedbank, to help it build renewable power plants, including one ordered by Anglo American Platinum.<\/p>\n

The other creditors include Norfund AS and the Industrial Development Corp., development finance institutions owned by the governments of Norway and South Africa, respectively, said Gqi Raoleka, Pele\u2019s managing director. Nedbank will provide R1 billion, the IDC R829 million and Norfund R658 million.<\/p>\n

The funding, 80% of which will be used for constructing new renewable energy plants, comes as the Johannesburg-based company pushes forward with plans to develop 2,000 MW of generation capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis facility is shoring up our capital base, although we already know that a second round or an equity raise has to follow in the next year or so,\u201d Raoleka said.<\/p>\n

The loan includes a preference share clause that will allow the lenders to benefit if Pele Green increases in value.<\/p>\n

Pele and other renewable energy plant developers are capitalizing on a drive by companies in South Africa to source their own power as the state power utility, Eskom, subjects the nation to regular power cuts.<\/p>\n

The government this week issued a request for private companies to build 5 gigawatts of new solar and wind power-generation projects<\/p>\n

About 80% of the projects Pele plans to develop are for the private sector, with the rest being through bids in government-run auctions to supply the national grid.<\/p>\n

The 100 MW solar power plant it\u2019s developing for Anglo Platinum is one of the first the company will complete for a private client.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we grow we will take more majority ownership of projects,\u201d said Matthew Wainwright, Pele\u2019s chief financial officer, in the same interview.<\/p>\n

Next year it plans to complete financial arrangements to build 200 MW of generation capacity for an international mining company, he said.<\/p>\n

The company won the right to develop 150 megawatts of solar power in a government auction for supply to the national grid in November and plans to partake in further bidding rounds for solar, wind and battery storage plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan is to own and operate five gigawatts of renewable energy projects by 2027,\u201d said Raoleka.<\/p>\n

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