24 August 2017
NextEnergy Solar Fund Limited
Results of Annual General Meeting
The Board of NextEnergy Solar Fund Limited announces that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today, 24 August 2017, all resolutions put to the meeting were approved by shareholders.
Ordinary Business - Ordinary Resolutions |
For* |
Against |
Withheld** |
1. To receive and adopt the Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2017 |
292,159,705 |
9,477,877 |
0 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 March 2017 |
299,759,859 |
1,877,723 |
0 |
3. To approve the Directors' remuneration policy for the three year period to 31 March 2020 |
301,636,632 |
950 |
0 |
4. To approve the Company's dividend policy |
301,637,582 |
0 |
0 |
5. To re-elect Mr Patrick Firth |
301,552,698 |
83,934 |
950 |
6. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP as Auditors to the Company |
300,544,243 |
1,092,389 |
950 |
7. To authorise the Directors to agree the remuneration for the auditors |
301,636,632 |
0 |
950 |
Special Business - Special Resolutions |
|
|
|
8. To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company |
252,908,202 |
48,620,119 |
109,261 |
9. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares |
301,637,372 |
210 |
0 |
Special Business - Ordinary Resolutions |
|
|
|
10. To approve the changes to the Company's investment policy. |
276,561,164 |
25,030,752 |
45,666 |
The full text of the resolutions may be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 29 June 2017, which is available on both the Company's website www.nextenergysolarfund.com and on the National Storage Mechanism www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM***. Details of the proxy votes lodged before the meeting will also be available shortly on the Company's website
A copy of the Special Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM***
* Includes discretionary votes received
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the proportion of votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution
*** Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement
Enquiries:
Company Secretary and Administrator
Ipes (Guernsey) Limited
Nicholas Robilliard
01481 713843