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BlackRock-managed fund buys stake in Kenyan wind farm

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Last updated: 2023/03/14 at 10:13 PM
News Room Published March 14, 2023
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NAIROBI, March 14 (Reuters) – Climate Finance Partnership, a fund managed by BlackRock Alternatives, is buying nearly a third of the shares in Kenyan wind farm Lake Turkana, it said on Tuesday.

Climate-focused funds are increasingly training their sights on Africa, which offers growing demand for clean energy and other climate infrastructure.

The continent is also suffering from the ravages of climate change-driven events like drought. Kenya and neighbours Ethiopia and Somalia are going through the worst drought in decades, which has caused starvation among millions.

BlackRock said the fund will acquire the stake in Lake Turkana Wind Power in Kenya’s far north from Finnish development financier Finnfund, Danish wind turbines maker Vestas (VWS.CO), and the Investment Fund for Developing Countries, a Danish development financier.

A regulatory filing published in the Kenyan press on Tuesday said the stake amounts to 31.25% of the shares of LTWP, a 365-wind turbine facility with a 310 megawatt capacity.

The regulatory notice defined the stake as “controlling”, but BlackRock later said that was within the meaning of Kenya’s energy law, not in the conventional sense of a controlling or majority stake. It did not disclose the value of the deal.

“The LTWP project provides reliable, low-cost energy to Kenya’s national grid via a 20-year power purchase agreement with Kenya Power,” BlackRock said, referring to the East African nation’s power distribution company.

LTWP provides just over a tenth of Kenya’s power generation, offering electricity to more than 3 million people, BlackRock said.

The deal, which requires regulatory approval, represents a first private investment in Africa for BlackRock Alternatives, part of BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), it said.

The Climate Finance Partnership (CFP) is a public-private fund that targets emerging market climate infrastructure, bringing together BlackRock, the French, German and Japanese governments, and some U.S.-based organisations.

It has commitments of $637 million from a range of global investors, which exceeded its fundraising target of $500 million.

“The fund plans to invest at least 25% of its assets under management in Africa,” it said.

Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Louise Heavens and Jan Harvey

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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