Transaction in Own Shares

NextEnergy Solar Fund Limited

28 January 2025

 

LEI: 213800ZPHCBDDSQH5447

28 January 2025

NextEnergy Solar Fund Limited

("NESF" or the "Company")

Transaction in own shares

NextEnergy Solar Fund, a leading specialist investor in solar energy and energy storage, announces that it has purchased the following number of Ordinary Shares on the London Stock Exchange through RBC Europe Limited.

Date of purchase:	27 January 2025
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	96,829
Lowest price per ordinary share (GBp):	64.60
Highest price per ordinary share (GBp):	65.10
Weighted average price per ordinary share (GBp):	64.88

The Company intends to hold the purchased shares in Treasury.

Following the above transaction, the Company holds 11,579,606 its Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 579,241,579 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

The total number of voting rights in the Company is 579,241,579 which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their major interest or a change to their major interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules. 

For further information: NextEnergy Capital Michael Bonte-Friedheim	020 3746 0700 [e-mail]
Ross Grier
Stephen Rosser
Peter Hamid (Investor Relations)
RBC Europe Limited	020 7653 4000
Matthew Coakes
Kathryn Deegan
Cavendish	020 7397 1909
Robert Peel
H/Advisors Maitland	020 7379 5151
Neil Bennett
Finlay Donaldson
Ocorian Administration (Guernsey) Limited	01481 742642
Kevin Smith

Notes to Editors¹:

About NextEnergy Solar Fund

NextEnergy Solar Fund is a specialist solar energy and energy storage investment company that is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

NextEnergy Solar Fund's investment objective is to provide ordinary shareholders with attractive risk-adjusted returns, principally in the form of regular dividends, by investing in a diversified portfolio of utility-scale solar energy and energy storage infrastructure assets.  The majority of NESF's long-term cash flows are inflation-linked via UK government subsidies.

As at 30 September 2024, the Company had an unaudited gross asset value of £1,104m.  For further information please visit www.nextenergysolarfund.com

Article 9 Fund

NextEnergy Solar Fund is classified under Article 9 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and EU Taxonomy Regulation.  NextEnergy Solar Fund's sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector are in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 and can be accessed on the ESG section of both the NextEnergy Solar Fund and NextEnergy Capital websites.

About NextEnergy Group

NextEnergy Solar Fund is managed by NextEnergy Capital, part of the NextEnergy Group.  NextEnergy Group was founded in 2007 to become a leading market participant in the international solar sector.  Since its inception, it has been active in the development, construction, and ownership of solar assets across multiple jurisdictions.  NextEnergy Group operates via its three business units: NextEnergy Capital (Investment Management), WiseEnergy (Operating Asset Management), and Starlight (Asset Development).

·     NextEnergy Capital: has over 17 years of specialist solar expertise having invested in over 460 individual solar plants across the world. NextEnergy Capital currently manages four institutional funds with a total capacity in excess of 3GW+ and has assets under management of $4.3bn.  More information is available at www.nextenergycapital.com   

·   WiseEnergy®:  is a leading specialist operating asset manager in the solar sector.  Since its founding, WiseEnergy has provided solar asset management, monitoring and technical due diligence services to over 1,500 utility-scale solar power plants with an installed capacity in excess of 2.5GW.  More information is available at www.wise-energy.com

·   Starlight: has developed over 100 utility-scale projects internationally and continues to progress a large pipeline of c.10GW of both green and brownfield project developments across global geographies.  More information is available at www.starlight-energy.com

Notes:

^1: All financial data is unaudited at 30 September 2024, being the latest date in respect of which NextEnergy Solar Fund has published financial information

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a breakdown of the individual trades made as part of the Programme is detailed below:

Aggregate information:

Platform	Daily total volume (in number of shares)	Daily weighted average price of shares acquired (GBp)
XLON	40,734	64.93
BATE	3,495	64.79
CHIX	47,600	64.84
TRQX	3,364	65.00
Aquis	1,636	65.00

Transaction Date	Transaction Time	Volume	Price	Platform	Transaction Ref
27/01/2025	09:42:35	191	65.00	CHIX	00280939789TRLO0
27/01/2025	09:42:35	191	65.00	CHIX	00280939790TRLO0
27/01/2025	09:42:35	79	65.00	TRQX	00280939792TRLO0
27/01/2025	09:42:35	79	65.00	TRQX	00280939793TRLO0
27/01/2025	09:42:35	2454	65.00	XLON	00280939794TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	1465	65.00	CHIX	00280948600TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	1804	65.00	CHIX	00280948601TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	123	65.00	CHIX	00280948602TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	569	65.00	CHIX	00280948603TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	5354	65.00	XLON	00280948604TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	3771	65.00	XLON	00280948605TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	3753	65.00	XLON	00280948606TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	660	65.00	TRQX	00280948607TRLO0
27/01/2025	10:48:49	1728	65.00	XLON	00280948608TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:09:02	7395	65.10	CHIX	00280957224TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	1298	65.00	CHIX	00280959230TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	3075	65.00	XLON	00280959231TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	1895	65.00	XLON	00280959232TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	1871	65.00	XLON	00280959233TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	1893	65.00	XLON	00280959234TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	2546	65.00	CHIX	00280959235TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	2454	65.00	XLON	00280959236TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	818	65.00	AQXE	00280959237TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	818	65.00	TRQX	00280959238TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	818	65.00	BATE	00280959239TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	910	65.00	CHIX	00280959240TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	1636	65.00	XLON	00280959241TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	818	65.00	AQXE	00280959245TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	818	65.00	TRQX	00280959246TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	409	65.00	BATE	00280959247TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	409	65.00	BATE	00280959248TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	40	65.00	CHIX	00280959249TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	483	65.00	CHIX	00280959250TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	20	65.00	CHIX	00280959251TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	275	65.00	CHIX	00280959252TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	509	65.00	XLON	00280959253TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	7	65.00	XLON	00280959254TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:31	27	65.00	XLON	00280959255TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:33	2082	65.00	CHIX	00280959257TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:30:33	112	65.00	XLON	00280959258TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:34:44	1503	65.00	CHIX	00280959687TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:34:44	455	65.00	TRQX	00280959688TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:34:44	455	65.00	TRQX	00280959689TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:34:44	163	65.00	XLON	00280959690TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:40:10	351	65.00	CHIX	00280960120TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:40:10	2546	65.00	CHIX	00280960121TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:40:10	2291	65.00	XLON	00280960122TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:47:50	1858	65.00	CHIX	00280961029TRLO0
27/01/2025	12:47:50	163	65.00	XLON	00280961030TRLO0
27/01/2025	13:53:33	1616	64.60	CHIX	00280969439TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:08:14	233	64.60	CHIX	00280971153TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:08:14	1881	64.60	CHIX	00280971154TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:08:14	1864	64.60	XLON	00280971155TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:08:14	1853	64.60	XLON	00280971156TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:08:22	1430	64.60	CHIX	00280971208TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:28:32	657	64.60	CHIX	00280974247TRLO0
27/01/2025	14:28:32	1868	64.60	CHIX	00280974248TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:37:23	1875	64.70	CHIX	00280993616TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:46:21	1271	64.60	CHIX	00280995701TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:46:21	1859	64.60	BATE	00280995702TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:46:21	579	64.60	CHIX	00280995703TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:46:21	1872	64.60	CHIX	00280995704TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:46:21	1868	64.60	CHIX	00280995705TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:46:21	1881	64.60	XLON	00280995706TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:50:01	899	64.70	XLON	00280996494TRLO0
27/01/2025	15:50:01	1081	64.70	XLON	00280996495TRLO0
27/01/2025	16:01:00	1102	64.60	CHIX	00280999731TRLO0
27/01/2025	16:01:00	753	64.60	CHIX	00280999732TRLO0
27/01/2025	16:08:14	900	64.60	CHIX	00281002113TRLO0
27/01/2025	16:17:46	991	64.60	CHIX	00281004644TRLO0
27/01/2025	16:17:49	2223	64.60	CHIX	00281004648TRLO0
27/01/2025	16:19:32	831	64.60	CHIX	00281004993TRLO0

 

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