Old Mutual Investment Group Namibia has just acquired a majority stake in Aloe Investments Number Twenty-Seven, the project company that owns and operates the 5 MWp Rosh Pinah solar power plant. These shares were previously held by the Spanish company AEE Power Ventures.
Aloe Investments Number Twenty-Seven is now majority owned by Old Mutual Investment Group Namibia; a financial company owned by the London-based insurance company Old Mutual in the UK. No information is filtered on the value of the shares purchased by Old Mutual. But this is an important transaction since Aloe Investments Number Twenty-Seven owns and operates the Rosh Pinah solar power plant.
This project company was set up by AEE Power Ventures. The Spanish Independent Power Producer (IPP) has built the Rosh Pinah solar power plant in the southern Namibian province of ǁKaras. The plant, which has a capacity of 5 MWp, went into commercial operation in 2017. The 13.5 GWh produced annually by the solar farm are sold to the state-owned company NamPower under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA).
A plant from the Refit programme
The Rosh Pinah solar project was developed as part of the Refit programme (renewable energy feed-in tariff), launched by the Namibian government with the aim of injecting 70 MW of electricity into the NamPower grid. Old Mutual Investment Group Namibia will share the shareholding of Aloe Investments Number Twenty-Seven with Namibian companies that own 30% of the solar plant since its commissioning in 2017.
The project company retains a technical partner as Old Mutual’s investment is part of a joint transaction with the Namibian subsidiary of Sturdee Energy which has acquired a minority stake in the plant. The Johannesburg-based independent power producer has a portfolio of 587 MW of renewable energy projects mainly in South Africa, Botswana and Cameroon.
Jean Marie Takouleu
