No financial details of the transaction have been announced.
Conergy CFO Dr. Sebastian Biedenkopf, says: "Impax is an investor ideally placed to take up the strategy of Epuron to build a wind energy IPP [independent power producer] portfolio. We are happy to achieve with this transaction the last big milestone in refocusing on our core solar business.”
The combined asset/share deal between Conergy subsidiary EPURON GmbH and Impax New Energy Investors II L.P. consists of the German wind development activities based in Hamburg, all partnership shares of three operating wind farms in Eastern Germany, the operation management business CSO Energy GmbH and 100% of the Conergy’s wind business based in France.
Impax New Energy Investors II L.P. acquires 23 MW of existing wind farms as well as a development pipeline of 93 MW in Germany and 285 MW in France, of which 75 MW is in advanced development stage, together with wind development teams in Germany and France.
Peter Rossbach, Managing Director Impax Private Equity, adds: “Impax is very pleased to make this acquisition as the foundation asset for the further growth of the French and German wind investment programmes of our latest infrastructure fund. We are grateful to Conergy and Epuron teams for their good work in the finalisation of this complex, multi-company and multi-country transaction.”